Radioactive Decay Is Best Characterized as a Type of ____

question 62

Multiple Choice

Radioactive decay is best characterized as a type of ____.

• A) physical change
• B) nuclear change
• C) chemical change
• D) chemical decay
• E) organic change

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Definitions:

Equally Likely

A term used in probability to denote outcomes that have the same chance of occurring.

Continuous Probability Distributions

Mathematical functions that represent the probabilities of all possible continuous outcomes for a random variable.

Bernoulli Distribution

A probability distribution of a random variable that takes the value 1 with probability 'p' and the value 0 with probability '1-p'.

Pareto Distribution

A probability distribution used to describe phenomena in the natural and social sciences where a small proportion of occurrences leads to a large proportion of outcomes.