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If you have 10,000 grams of a substance that decays with a half-life of 14 days, then how much will you have after 42 days?

If you have 10000 grams of a substance that decays with a halflife of 14 days then how much will you have after 42 days class=

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Answer:

1250

Explanation:

Used a half life calculator, put in the given variables, and the answer was the remaining quantity. Got it right on the test as well

The answer is 1250 grams of substance will be left after 42 days.

What is Half Life ?

Half-life time is the time needed for the reactants to be in its half concentration.

It is known that the decay of a radioactive isotope  obeys first order kinetics.

Also, it is clear that in first order decay the half-life time is independent of the initial concentration.

If reactant has initial concentration [A₀],

after half-life time its concentration will be ([A₀]/2).

The half-life time of the substance = 14 days.

42 days means 3 half life

After 1 half life the substance left is

= 10000/2

= 5000 grams

After second Half Life

=5000/2

=2500 grams

After Third Half Life

=2500/2

=1250 grams

Therefore 1250 grams of substance will be left after 42 days.

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