Radioactive Decay: The decay rate of a radioactive sample decreases from 175 kBq to 12.4 kBq in 18.3 s. What is the half-life of this sample?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
4.79 s
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What will be an ideal response?
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