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What Percentage of a Radioactive Sample Remains After Four Half-Lives

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What percentage of a radioactive sample remains after four half-lives have passed?


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"Average" Growth Rate

A metric that quantifies the rate of expansion or contraction in a variable's value over a specified period, typically expressed as a percentage.

Positively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the frequency distribution is longer than the left side, indicating that most values are clustered around the left.

Median

A statistical measure representing the middle value in a sorted, listed version of a set of numbers, effectively splitting the data set into two halves.

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the values by the number of values.

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