Sodium-24 (t, = 15h) is used to study blood %3D circulation. If a patient is injected with an aqueous solution of 24Nacl whose activity is 2.5 x 109 d/s, how much of the activity is present in the patient's body and excreted fluids after 4.0 days?

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Sodium-24 (t, = 15h) is used to study blood
%3D
circulation. If a patient is injected with an
aqueous solution of 24Nacl whose activity is
2.5 x 109 d/s, how much of the activity is
present in the patient's body and excreted
fluids after 4.0 days?
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