The half-life of a certain radioactive isotope is .
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Problem
The half-life of a certain radioactive isotope is 10min.
(i) Find the time required for the activity of a sample to fall to one-sixteenth of its initial value.
(ii) During the interval calculated in part (i), what percentage of the original nuclei remains undecayed and what percentage has decayed?