Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 476

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-The half-life of a radioactive element is 130 days, but your sample will not be useful to you after 80% of the radioactive nuclei originally present have disintegrated. About how many days can you use the sample?

• A) 312
• B) 302
• C) 287
• D) 297

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