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An unknown amount of pollutant is dropped in a pond with a volume of approximately 200 m3. A flow rate (Q) of 10 m3 / minute flows into and out of the pond after the initial pollution event. The rate of change of concentration (C) of pollutant in the pond is given by:
\normalsize\frac{dC}{dt} = -\frac{Q}{V} Cwhere t is time, and V is volume.
After 30 minutes the concentration of pollutant in the pond is found to be 0.01 kg/m3. Using an initial guess of 0.1 kg/m3 and the Euler method with 50 steps, apply Fixed Point Iteration with a convergence of less than 0.0001 between iterations to find the initial concentration of pollutant in the pond.