The Mean Lives Of A Radioactive Substance Are 1620 Years And 405 Years For-emission And -emission Respectively. Find Out The Time During Which Three-fourth Of A Sample Will Decay If It Is Decaying Both By -emission And-emission Simultaneously. .

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Question

The mean lives of a radioactive substance are 1620 years and 405 years for-emission and -emission respectively. Find out the time during which three-fourth of a sample will decay if it is decaying both by -emission and-emission simultaneously.

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Solution

Correct option is

449 years

The decay constants for  emission are respectively  per year. 

  

                  

  

After  th part has been disintegrated, 

            

  

              

              = 449 years.

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