Radon-220 has a half-life of 55.6 seconds. What are the odds that any particular Radon-220 atom will decay within two minutes?

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Radon-220 has a half-life of 55.6 seconds. What are the odds that any particular Radon-220 atom will decay within two minutes? 

 

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