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Half Life Worksheet - Problems and Graphing

This document contains practice problems about half-life, the time it takes for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay. It asks the student to calculate the amount of radioactive material remaining after a given number of half-lives have passed for samples with known half-lives, determine original sample sizes based on remaining amounts, and calculate half-lives from decay data graphs. It contains 9 multi-part problems of increasing complexity to help students practice these half-life decay calculations.

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Half Life Worksheet - Problems and Graphing

This document contains practice problems about half-life, the time it takes for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay. It asks the student to calculate the amount of radioactive material remaining after a given number of half-lives have passed for samples with known half-lives, determine original sample sizes based on remaining amounts, and calculate half-lives from decay data graphs. It contains 9 multi-part problems of increasing complexity to help students practice these half-life decay calculations.

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Half - Life Practice

1. What is meant by half-life?

2. If you have 100 grams of a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 10 years:

a. How much of the isotope will you have left after 10 years?

b. How much of the isotope will you have left after 20 years?

4 half lives
c. How many half-lives will occur in 40 years?

3. The half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,300 years. If a nuclear bomb released 8 kg of this


isotope, how many years would pass before the amount is reduced to 1 kg?

4. The half-life of radon-222 is 3.8 days. How much of a 100 gram sample is left after 15.2 days?

5. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,730 years. If a sample contained 70 mg originally, how much
is left after 17,190 years?

6. The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.26 years. If 50 grams are left after 15.78 years, how many grams
were in the original sample?

7. The half-life of I-137 is 8.07 days. If 25 grams are left after 40.35 days, how many grams were
in the original sample?

8. If 100 grams of Au-198 decays to 6.25 grams in 10.8 days, what is the half-life of Au-198?
9. Graph the following data on the graph, then use the graph to determine the half-life of this
isotope.

Time (years) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Mass Remaining (grams) 100 75 56 42 32 24 18 13 10 8 6

half-life =

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