Working scientifically ‘{BNumeracy {59 Critical and creative thinking Jonathon has exactly 1000 polonium-218 atoms. He knows thet polonium-218 decays capidly —{ Gecay iv) to rot into leed-214 through alpha decey. “tobresk down een eao-2is polonium 218 : siphe panicle : @ protons oe 2reutns) ( alpha acay hhalf-tife (n) | the time for e ‘To measure the half-life of polonium-218, Jonathon counts the number of polonium-218 substance to ‘atoms he has left after every 2minutes. His results are written in the table below. | Georease by halt Gucian) of 2] 4] e[ 8] 10] 12] v4] 16| 18] 20] ftceacs ‘polonium-218 atoms | 1000 | as | 480 | 230 185 85 | 85 «| 2s| 15] 10] 4 Plot the data in the table on the axes provided, Plot only the data points, with no connecting lines. The first two points have been done for you. ° = 0 2 “Ten (min) PEARSON science NEW SOUTH WALES °2. Drawaline of best fit though the data points, to show the general tra i ‘line of best fit though the data points, to show the general tren. (amnans 2 State how many poloniuim-218 atoms Jonathon has after: | line on @ graph that fits most closely to data points (@) 4min, | the data | trend (9) direction {b) lamin (o) Simin. (a) 19min. 4 Determine the time (min) when Jonathon has: {2) one-half (4) of the original number of polonium-218 atoms (0) one-quarter (4) ofthe original number of polonium-218 atoms (6) one-eighth (4) of the original number of polonium-218 atoms {@) one-sisteenth (Via of the original number of polonium-218 atoms. 8 Uso your graph to calculate the half-ife of polonium-218.