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Calculation Involving Half-Lives

The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.27 yr. How much of a 1 000-mg sample of cobalt-60 is left after 15.81 yr?

Carbon-11. used in medical imaging, has a half-life of 20.4 min. The carbon-11 nuclides are formed, and the carbon atoms are then incorporated into an appropriate compound. The resulting sample is injected into a patient, and the medical image is obtained. If the entire process takes five half-lives, what percentage of the original carbon-11 remains at this time?

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QUESTION:

Calculation Involving Half-Lives

The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.27 yr. How much of a 1 000-mg sample of cobalt-60 is left after 15.81 yr?

Carbon-11. used in medical imaging, has a half-life of 20.4 min. The carbon-11 nuclides are formed, and the carbon atoms are then incorporated into an appropriate compound. The resulting sample is injected into a patient, and the medical image is obtained. If the entire process takes five half-lives, what percentage of the original carbon-11 remains at this time?

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The amount of radioactive substance decreases by 50 % for every half-life that passes.

Initial mass of carbon -11= 1.000 mg

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