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    This document provides 10 practice problems for students to solve regarding exponential decay and half-life calculations. The problems involve calculating the amount of various radioactive isotopes that remain after a given time period, or calculating the time it would take for a sample to decay to a given amount, using half-life equations. Sample isotopes included are sodium-24, carbon-14, polonium-214, palladium-103, nitrogen-16, thallium-208, krypton-85, radium-226, and carbon-14.

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    Half Life HW

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    This document provides 10 practice problems for students to solve regarding exponential decay and half-life calculations. The problems involve calculating the amount of various radioactive isotopes that remain after a given time period, or calculating the time it would take for a sample to decay to a given amount, using half-life equations. Sample isotopes included are sodium-24, carbon-14, polonium-214, palladium-103, nitrogen-16, thallium-208, krypton-85, radium-226, and carbon-14.

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    This document provides 10 practice problems for students to solve regarding exponential decay and half-life calculations. The problems involve calculating the amount of various radioactive isotopes that remain after a given time period, or calculating the time it would take for a sample to decay to a given amount, using half-life equations. Sample isotopes included are sodium-24, carbon-14, polonium-214, palladium-103, nitrogen-16, thallium-208, krypton-85, radium-226, and carbon-14.

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    Half Life HW

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    This document provides 10 practice problems for students to solve regarding exponential decay and half-life calculations. The problems involve calculating the amount of various radioactive isotopes that remain after a given time period, or calculating the time it would take for a sample to decay to a given amount, using half-life equations. Sample isotopes included are sodium-24, carbon-14, polonium-214, palladium-103, nitrogen-16, thallium-208, krypton-85, radium-226, and carbon-14.

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    Algebra One – Exponential Functions Name________________________________

    Half-life Application Problems date____________________block_________

    Show the half-life equation for each problem. Then show work or give full intersection* value
    for the question. Then answer the question (of course!). The * problems involve intersection.

    1) Sodium-24 has a half-life of 15 hours. How much sodium-24 will remain in an 18.0 g sample
    after 60 hours?

    2) Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years. How much carbon-14 will remain in a 100 g sample
    after 11,460 years?

    3) *Polonium-214 has a relatively short half-life of 164 seconds. How many seconds would it take
    for 8.0 g of this isotope to decay to 0.25 g?

    4) *How many days does it take for 16 g of palladium-103 to decay to 1.0 g? The half-life of
    palladium-103 is 17 days.

    5) Nitrogen-16 has a half-life of 7.2 seconds. How much nitrogen-16 will remain in a 100 g
    sample in 21.6 seconds?

    6) *Thallium-208 has a half-life of 3.053 minutes. How long will it take for 120 g to decay to 7.50
    grams?
    7) Krypton-85 has a half-life of 10.76 years. How much of a sample of 60 g is left after 50 years?

    8) A scientist has a 2.5 g sample of radium-226. How many grams of the sample will decay in 800
    years if the half-life is 1600 years?

    9) THINK QUESTION A paleontologist unearths the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex. We know


    that these dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago. Would it be reasonable to
    expect that the carbon-14 in the fossil has completed 15,000 half-lives? Why or why not?
    (recall that the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, you might have to research the full time
    span that T-rex were on earth)

    10) Nitrogen-16 has a half-life of 7.2 seconds. If you start with 100 g, what amount is left after 5
    minutes?

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