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Answer: 816 years</h2>
This problem can be solved using the <u>Radioactive Half Life Formula:
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(1)
Where:
is the final amount of the material
is the initial amount of the material
is the time elapsed (the quantity we are asked to find)
is the half life of americium-241
Knowing this, let's find
from (1):
Applying natural logarithm in both sides:
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<u>Finally:</u>
The answer is -35 because it says below sea level
12(3x+1<span>)
I hope helped ^-^</span>