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Time between two stages of decay of a sample

This type of question, asked 2 times: 2021 Paper 6, 2021 Paper 14. All 2 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    2021 Paper 6

    19
    Calculate the time interval between 33%33\% decay and 67%67\% decay if half-life of a substance is 20 minutes.

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  2. Question 2

    2021 Paper 14

    12
    For a radioactive sample, time taken for quarter of the sample to decay is T1T_{1} and time taken for half the sample to decay is T2T_{2}. Find the value of T2−T1T_{2}-T_{1}

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