Half-Lives

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2nd half-life

first half-life

3rd half-life

original amount

What percent of Iodine-131 remains after 2 half-lives?

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In days, how long is the half-life of Iodine-131?

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After four half-lives, how many days have passed?

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The y-axis of the graph measures "counts per second." What does this refer to?

• How many atoms a person can count in a second

• How much radiation is detected by a Geiger-Muller counter per second

• How many atoms there are in a second

• How many atoms there are in the sample

What was the starting "counts per second" of the sample?

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After the first half-life, how many counts per second are measured?

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How long is the half-life in hours?

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After 3 half-lives, how many counts per second would the Geiger-Muller Counter measure?

• 68,000 counts per second

• 35,000 counts per second

• 9,000 counts per second

• 40,000 counts per second

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