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The Activity of a Sample Reduces from 7

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The activity of a sample reduces from 7.55 × 109 Bq to 5.11 × 109 Bq in 5.50 months.
(a) What is the half life?
(b) How many months must one wait for the activity to decrease to 10%?

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