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Illusion [34]
3 years ago
8

The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for a quantity of the isotope to be reduced to half its initial mass

. Starting with 125 grams of a radioactive isotope, how much will be left after 5 half-lives? Use the calculator provided and round your answer to the nearest gram.
Mathematics
1 answer:
krok68 [10]3 years ago
7 0
So, 0.5^5 is 0.03125
multiply that by 125 and get your answer.
*3.90625* (4)
just saying, I got the 0.5^5 thing because 5 is the number of half-lives (x) and 0.5 is the rate of loss (or whatever its called).
If it were to gain, you would put 1.5

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