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What half-life of C14 is 5730 years. What fraction of the original C14 would you expect to be present in a fossil that is 28650 years old?
1/32 of the original amount.
How much is 5 years auto loan at 0.9 percent interest?
That would depend on the original principal (the amount you borrowed) and how they compute interest.
If you had a 100 gram sample of plutonium how much would remain in 43 years?
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of about 24,100 years, meaning it takes that long for half of a sample to decay. In 43 years, which is much shorter than the half-life, only a tiny fraction of the plutonium would decay. Therefore, after 43 years, approximately 99.83 grams of the original 100-gram sample would remain.
The half life of Radium-226 is 1600 years How many grams will remain from 5 grams after 365 years?
The amount of material left in radioactive decay is an exponential function. Therefore, the way you solve this is to write it as an exponential function; for example: f = e-kt, where "f" is the fraction remaining after a certain time, "t" is the time in any unit you choose (for example, years), and "k" is a constant you have to find out. Replace the numbers you know (for t = 1600 years, f = 1/2, since 1/2 of the original remains), and solve for "k". Then, write the equation again, this time with the constant "k" you figured out before, and the time (365 years). This will give you the fraction left after that amount of time.
If current birth and death rates remain constant the world's population will double in how many years?
40 years
