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Bismuth-210 has a half-life of about 4 days. After 8 days, how many milligrams of a390 mg sample will remain? Round answer to the nearest tenth place. If answer doesnot have tenths place use a zero so that it does. Do not include the units.Please help me

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Solution:

Given Bismuth-210 has a half-life of about 4 days.


\begin{gathered} \text{ After 4 days, }(1)/(2)(390\text{ mg\rparen = 195mg will remain} \\ \end{gathered}
After\text{ 8 days, }(195mg)/(2)=97.5mg\text{ will remain}

The answer is 97.5mg

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