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A 50.0 g sample of carbon is taken from the pelvis bone of a skeleton and is found to have a 14 C decay rate of 200.0 decays min^-1. It is known that carbon from a living organism has a decay rate of decays/min/g

(b) the average-life and (c) the activity of 1.00 mg of 198 Au. Take atomic weight of 198 Au to be 198 g mol^-1 The half-life of 198 Au is 2.7 days. Calculate (a) the decay constant