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The half-life of a sample of a radioactive substance is 98 minutes. How long does it take for the activity of the sample to reduce...

      

The half-life of a sample of a radioactive substance is 98 minutes. How long does it take for the activity of the sample to reduce to 1/16th of the original value?

  

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Mutiso
Time (minutes)------Activity
0-------------------1
98------------------½
196-----------------¼
294-----------------1/8
392-----------------1/16
=>> time taken = 392 minutes.
Mutiso answered the question on October 17, 2018 at 09:26


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