Basic Half-Life practice

If the half-life of uranium-232 is 70 years, how many half-lives will it take for 10 g of it to be reduced to 1.25 g?

• 1 half-life
• 2 half-lives
• 3 half-lives
• 4 half-lives

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If 10 mg of iodine 131 is given to a patient, how much is left after 24 days? The half-life of iodine-131 is 8 days.

• 1.25mg
• 1.25g
• 10g
• 10mg

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What is the half-life of iodine-131?

• 32 days
• 8 days
• 16 days
• 24 days

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The half-life of Zn-71 is 2.4 minutes. If one had 100.0 g at the beginning, how many grams would be left after 7.2 minutes has elapsed?

• 100.0g
• 50.0g
• 12.5g
• 8.5g

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 Fermium-253 has a half-life of 0.334 seconds. A radioactive sample is considered to be completely decayed after 10 half-lives. How much time will elapse for this sample to be considered gone?

• 0.334 seconds
• 3.34 seconds
• 1.77 seconds
• 13.4 seconds

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Barium-122 has a half-life of 2 minutes. A fresh sample weighing 80 g was obtained. If it takes 10 minutes to set up an experiment using barium-122, how much barium-122 will be left when the experiment begins?

• 0.25g
• 2.5g
• 25g
• 80g

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If the half-life of uranium-232 is 70 years, how many half-lives will it take for 10 g of it to be reduced to 1.25 g?

• 1 half-life
• 2 half-lives
• 3 half-lives
• 4 half-lives

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Geologist use the time it takes for a radioactive isotope to decay to half its original mass called a___________.

• radioactive decay

• isotope

• half-life

• carbon dating

An isotope of cesium (cesium-137) has a half-life of 30 years. If 1.0 mg of cesium-137 disintegrates over a period of 90 years, how many mg of cesium-137 would remain?

• 0.5 mg

• 0.25 mg

• 0.125 mg

• 0.0625 mg

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What is the Half life of this isotope?

• 5 seconds

• 10 seconds

• 15 seconds

• 20 seconds

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