The half-life of a radioactive substance is $25 \ min$. The time interval between $50 \%$ decay and $87.5 \%$ decay of the substance will be: (in $min$)

For a radioactive element,the mean life is $\tau$. At time $t = 0$,the number of nuclei decaying per unit time is $n$. The number of nuclei that have decayed between time $0$ and $t$ is:

$A$ freshly prepared sample of a radioisotope of half-life $1386 \ s$ has activity $10^3$ disintegrations per second. Given that $\ln 2 = 0.693$,the fraction of the initial number of nuclei (expressed in nearest integer percentage) that will decay in the first $80 \ s$ after preparation of the sample is:

${ }^{131} I$ is an isotope of Iodine that $\beta$ decays to an isotope of Xenon with a half-life of $8$ days. $A$ small amount of a serum labelled with ${ }^{131} I$ is injected into the blood of a person. The activity of the amount of ${ }^{131} I$ injected was $2.4 \times 10^5 \text{ Bq}$. It is known that the injected serum will get distributed uniformly in the blood stream in less than half an hour. After $11.5$ hours,$2.5 \text{ ml}$ of blood is drawn from the person's body,and gives an activity of $115 \text{ Bq}$. The total volume of blood in the person's body,in liters,is approximately (you may use $e^{x} \approx 1+x$ for $|x| \ll 1$ and $\ln 2 \approx 0.7$):

The average life $T$ and the decay constant $\lambda$ of a radioactive nucleus are related as

$A$ radioactive substance has decay constants $\lambda_{\alpha}$ and $\lambda_{\beta}$ for $\alpha$ and $\beta$ emission,respectively. If the substance emits both $\alpha$ and $\beta$ particles,find the effective half-life of the substance.