Fermium-253 has a half-life of 3.00 d. A sample of fermium contains 7.37 × 107 nuclei. How long will it take for there to be only 3.36 × 106 fermium nuclei in this sample?

A) 2.75 d
B) 9.80 d
C) 13.4 d
D) 15.7 d
E) 58.6 d


C

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