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Models & Qualitative Behavior · Hard problem

A thermometer reading 100∘100^\circC is carried outside, where the air temperature is constant but unknown. It obeys Newton's law of cooling, and it reads 70∘70^\circC one minute later and 55∘55^\circC two minutes later. What is the outside temperature (in ∘^\circC)?