A student determines the half-life of an isotope to be 66 5 s. What is the
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A student determines the half-life of an isotope to be 66 ± 5 s. What is the absolute uncertainty in the decay constant?
A. 8.0 × 10−4 s−1
B. 1.1 × 10−3 s−1
C. 5.3 × 10−2 s−1
D. 7.6 × 10−2 s−1
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