A 100 g sample of a radioactive isotope has a half life of 2 days. After 6 days how many grams of the original radioactive isotope are left?
The formula of decay has form , where is the initial number of atoms, is the time interval and is the half-life time.
Therefore, .
In our case so so only one eighth of the initial number of radioactive atoms will be left. Therefore, only g will be left.
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