Suppose the amount of a certain radioactive substance in a sample decays from 9.40mg to 5.40mg over a period of 7.99x103 years. Calculate the half life of the substance.Round your answer to 2 significant digits.

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Q: 9. Suppose the amount of a certain radioactive substance in a sample decays from 3.80 mg to 1.70 mg…

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Q: If the amount of a radioactive element decreases from 2.4 g to 0.30 g in 12 days, what is its…

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Q: A 1.55 g sample of an isotope has a half-life of 3.8 days. What mass of sample is left after 5.5…

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Q: [Refere A 1.14 g sample of a radioactive isotope decays to 0.87 g in 36.3 hr. What is the half-life…

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Q: If you start with 71.0 grams of a radioactive substance with a half life of 3 days, how much will be…

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Q: A moon rock collected by a U.S. Apollo mission is estimated to be 3.70 billion years old by…

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Q: How much (in grams) of a 17.2-g sample of some radioactive element (half-life of 4 days) remains…

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Q: After 60 days, 10 grams of radioactive isotope remains from an original 27 g sample. What is the…

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Q: Complete the table for the radioactive isotope. Isotope 239Pu, Half Life (In years) 24100, Initial…

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Q: 3 Carbon-14 has a half life of about 5,730 years. If an archeologist examines a bone and finds 6.25%…

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Q: A 1.55 g sample of an isotope has a half-life of 3.8 days. What mass of sample is left after 5.5…

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Q: Suppose the amount of a certain radioactive substance in a sample decays from 7.40 mg to 4.60 mg…

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Q: Suppose the amount of a certain radioactive substance in a sample decays from 3.60 mg to 2.50 mg…

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Q: The half-life of Radium-226 is 1590 years. If a sample contains 300 mg, how many mg will remain…

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Q: At the beginning of an experiment, a sclentist has 164 grams of radioactive goo. After 255 minutes,…

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Q: After 31 years, what mass (in g) remains of a 45.0 g sample of a radioactive isotope with a…

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Q: Substance Q initially weights 120% of its remaining mass after its decay in 60 minutes. What is its…

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Writing and Balancing Nuclear Equations

A nuclear equation is a symbolic representation of a nuclear reaction using certain symbols. It is studied in nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics.