Mathematics for Elementary Teachers with Activities (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134392790
Author: Beckmann, Sybilla
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5.4, Problem 11P
Suppose that a laboratory has 1 gram of a radioactive substance that has a half-life of 100 years. “A half-life of 100 years” means that, no matter what amount of the radioactive substance one starts with, after 100 years, only half of it will be left. So, after the first 100 years, only a quarter of a gram would be left.
- How many hundreds of years will it take until there is less than one hundred millionth of a gram left of the laboratory’s radioactive substance? (Give a whole number of hundreds of years.)
- How many hundreds of years will it take until there is less than one billionth of a gram left of your radioactive substance? (Give a whole number of hundreds of years.)
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