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Half-Life practice
1 2 100
Create a graph that represents how a
radioactive element will decay.
What is half-life?

90

80
% of original mass remaining

70
60

50

40

4
30
Gold-198 has a half life of 2.7 days. Complete the
table for an initial sample size of 200 grams.
20

10

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Time Elapsed Amount
Number of half-lives Remaining

3
0 days 200 grams
The half-life of Po-214 is 0.001 seconds. How
much of a 10-gram sample is left after 0.003 2.7 days
seconds?

5 The graph below shows the breakdown of radon-222.

6
How much of a 500g sample of potassium-42 is left after
37.2 hours if the half-life of potassium-42 is 12.4 hours.

7 How much of a 100 gram sample of gold-198 is left after

8.10 days if its half life is 2.7 days?

What is the half-life of Rn-222? ________

What fraction of the original sample will be left after 3 half-lives?____ ©The Trendy Science Teacher 2020
8 Time
The table below shows the radioactive decay
of a 600 g sample of iodine-125.
Half-lives % of Parent Isotope Fraction of Parent Mass (g) of Parent
(days) Remaining Isotope Remaining Isotope

0 0 100% 1/1 600

60 1 50% ½ 300
120 2 25% ¼ 150
180 3 12.5% 1/8 75
240 4 6.25% 1/16 37.5
300 5 3.125% 1/32 18.75
360 6 1.56% 1/64 9.4

a. What percent of iodine is left after 5 half lives have passed?

b. What percent of iodine-125 has decayed if there are 37.5 grams of the original
sample left?

c. What is the half life of iodine-125?

d. What mass of the iodine-125 has decayed after 6 half-lives?

e. What fraction of the iodine-125 remains after 300 days have passed?

f. How many half lives would have to pass for there to be only 1.2 grams remaining?

9 Create your own half life problem in the space provided below. Then solve.

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