Suppose you have a sample of radioactive material that decays with a time constant of 60 minutes. If after 2.0 hourshours there are 3.4×106 atoms of the original material left in the sample, how many atoms N0 of that material were initially in the sample?

Suppose you have a sample of radioactive material that decays with a time constant of 60 minutes. If after 2.0 hourshours there are 3.4×106 atoms of the original material left in the sample, how many atoms N0 of that material were initially in the sample?

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