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1. Question from a textbook.
I have written down the differential equations for part a) and shown part b),
but I am unsure of how to tackle part c).

2. This is the Question from the book
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Any advice would be grateful. Thank you
 
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It is a numerical integration. Start with x=1, calculate the derivatives, estimate the numbers a small time step later, continue until the fraction of remaining helium is negligible.