In a radioactive decay process, the activity is defined as , where is the number of radioactive nuclei at time . Two radioactive sources, and have same activity at time . At a later time, the activities of and are and , respectively. When and have just completed their 3rd and 7th half-lives, respectively, the ratio is _____.
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The activity halves every half-life, and both sources start with the same activity :
- ;
- .
Topics:Radioactive decay