Radioactive decay, half-life and uses

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An engineering laboratory uses a radioactive tracer with a half-life of 4 hours.

A technician measures an initial count rate of 160 counts per second (cps) from this tracer.

Complete the graph on Figure 1, as accurately as possible, to show how the count rate from this tracer changes over 16 hours.

The first point at 0 hours is already plotted on Figure 1.

A line graph grid for plotting radioactive decay. The y-axis is labelled 'Count rate in cps' and ranges from 0 to 200 cps with markings every 20 cps. The x-axis is labelled 'Time in hours' and ranges from 0 to 16 hours with markings every 2 hours. A single point is plotted at (0, 160).

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