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a radioactive sample has a half-life of 4.0 min. what fraction of the simple is lefts after 20min?
6 years ago

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Answered by oobleck
20 min = 5 half-lives
so, you will have (1/2)^5 = 1/32 of the original amount
6 years ago

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