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Your company develops radioactive isotopes for medical applications. In your work there, you measure the activity of a radioactive sample. Your results are given in the table.
(a) Find the half-life of the sample. (b) How many radioactive nuclei were present in the sample at t = 0? (c) How many were present after 7.0 h?
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