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Given information
Use the following information to answer the next 
exercises. Carbo
is a radioactive element with a half-life of about 
years. Carbon-
is said to decay exponentially. The decay rate is 
We start with one gram of carbon
. We are interested in the time (years) it takes to decay carbon-.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
According to the given information, the random variable 
denotes the time in years carbon- decays. This follows the exponential distribution. The decay rate is
Therefore, the decay rate 
is
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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208
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