Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 5, Problem 67P
Use the following information to answer the next 16 exercises. Carbon-14 is a radioactive element with a half-life of about 5730 years. Carbon-14 Is said o decay exponentially. The decay rate Is 0.000121. We start with one gram of carbon-id. We are interested in the time (years) it takes to decay carbon-14.
What is the decay rate (m)?
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