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Mastering Half-Life Calculations and Graphing Decay

Authored by Anthony Clark

English, Mathematics

11th Grade

CCSS covered

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Mastering Half-Life Calculations and Graphing Decay
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A radioactive substance has a half-life of 5 years. If you start with 80 grams, how much will remain after 15 years?

40 grams

10 grams

5 grams

20 grams

Tags

CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The half-life of a certain medication in the body is 3 hours. If a patient takes a 200 mg dose, how much of the medication will be left in the body after 9 hours?

25 mg

100 mg

50 mg

75 mg

Tags

CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A certain isotope has a half-life of 10 days. If you have 50 mg of the isotope, how much will be left after 30 days?

3.125 mg

12.5 mg

6.25 mg

25 mg

Tags

CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Graph the exponential decay of a substance with a half-life of 4 days, starting with 100 grams. What will the graph look like after 12 days?

25 grams

12.5 grams

50 grams

75 grams

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A culture of bacteria decreases by half every 2 hours. If you start with 1,000 bacteria, how many will be present after 8 hours?

250

62

125

500

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The half-life of a certain chemical is 6 months. If you have 120 mg of the chemical, how much will remain after 1.5 years?

30 mg

5 mg

60 mg

15 mg

Tags

CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Create a graph showing the decay of a substance with a half-life of 8 hours, starting with 200 grams. How much will remain after 24 hours?

100 grams

50 grams

10 grams

25 grams

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.4

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