The half-life of palladium-100, 100Pd, is four days. (So half of any given quantity of 100Pd will

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The half-life of palladium-100, 100Pd, is four days. (So half of any given quantity of 100Pd will disintegrate in four days) The initial mass of a sample is one gram.
(a) Find the mass that remains after 16 days.
(b) Find the mass m(t) that remains after t days.
(c) Find the inverse of this function and explain its meaning.
(d) When will the mass be reduced to 0.01 g?
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