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It is 1/8 .

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Q: What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after three half - life?
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Why After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample remains?

The fraction that remains is 1/8.


After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample remains?

1/8 of the original amount remains.


What fraction of a sample remains after three half lives?

An eighth remains.


After three half-lives what fraction of a radioactive sample will remain?

Approx 1/8 will remain.


What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after three half-lives?

Not sure what you mean by "had-lives". After 3 half lives, approx 1/8 would remain.


What fraction of a radioactive sample decays after three half lives?

If I take a radioactive sample of 400 moles of an unknown substance and let it decay to the point of three half-lives I would have 50 moles left of the sample. 1/2 of what is left will decay in the next half-life. At the end of that half-life I will have 25 moles left of the unknown substance or 4/25.


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Determine the amount of time it takes for three fourths of a radioactive sample of an isotope of bromine to decay the half-life of the isotope is 16.5 hours?

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If three fourths of a pizza was left in the refrigerator and someone ate one third of it What fraction of the pizza was left?

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What fraction of a radioactive sample remains after three half lives?

Not sure what you mean by "had-lives". After 3 half lives, approx 1/8 would remain.


A sample of radioactive isotope has a halflife of 1 day how much of the original sample will be left at the end of the fourth day?

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Is three as a fraction?

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