A Person's Body Generates About 0

question 135

Multiple Choice

A person's body generates about 0.2 µCi of radioactivity! Determine the total radioactivity emitted by 300 students in a lecture hall. (1 Ci = 3.7 x 10¹⁰ Bq and 1 Bq = 1 decay/s)

• A) 2 x10⁶ decays/s
• B) 9 x 10¹⁶ decays/s
• C) 70 decays/s
• D) 2 x10⁷ decays/s
• E) 7 x10³ decays/s

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