4. A mathematician is selling goods at a car boot sale. She believes that the rate at which she makes sales depends on the length of time since the start of the sale, \(t\) hours, and the total value of sales she has made up to that time, \(\pounds x\).
She uses the model
$$\frac { \mathrm { d } x } { \mathrm {~d} t } = \frac { k ( 5 - t ) } { x }$$
where \(k\) is a constant.
Given that after two hours she has made sales of \(\pounds 96\) in total,
- solve the differential equation and show that she made \(\pounds 72\) in the first hour of the sale.
The mathematician believes that is it not worth staying at the sale once she is making sales at a rate of less than \(\pounds 10\) per hour.
- Verify that at 3 hours and 5 minutes after the start of the sale, she should have already left.
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