Thorium-234 has a half-life of 24.1 days. How much of a 100-g sample of thorium-234 will be unchanged after 48.2 days?

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Yaretzi Benitez

5 August, 23:59

Thorium-234 has a half-life of 24.1 days. How much of a 100-g sample of thorium-234 will be unchanged after 48.2 days?

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Melina · Answer 1

25G is the answer for sure.

Yair Padilla · Answer 2

Half-life means that the matter degrades by 50% at each interval. 48.2 days is 2 intervals.

So, it would go down by 50% in the first interval, making it 50g. Then it would go down by another 50% from there, making the final amount of undecayed thorium-234 25g.