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radioactive Decay These exercises use the population radioactive Decay.
Radioactive Cesium The half-life of cesium- 37 is 30 years. Suppose we have a sample.
(a) Find a function
(b) Find a function
(c) How much of sample Will remain after 80 years?
(d) After how many years will only 2 g of the sample remain?
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