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Question 57

An environmental monitoring team tracks two radon isotopes, Isotope X\text{Isotope } XIsotope X and Isotope Y\text{Isotope } YIsotope Y, which have half-lives of 16 minutes16\text{ minutes}16 minutes and 48 minutes48\text{ minutes}48 minutes, respectively. Freshly collected samples of both isotopes begin decaying at the same time. After a period of 96 minutes96\text{ minutes}96 minutes, both samples are measured to contain exactly the same number of active, undecayed nuclei. If the sample of Isotope Y\text{Isotope } YIsotope Y initially contained N0 N_0\,N0​ nuclei, what was the initial number of nuclei in the sample of Isotope X\text{Isotope } XIsotope X?

116N0\frac{1}{16} N_0161​N0​

4N04 N_04N0​

16N016 N_016N0​

64N064 N_064N0​

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