Define the average life of a radioactive substance. 

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Define the average life of a radioactive sample and obtain its relation to decay constant and half life. 

A radioactive nucleus decays by two different process. The half life of the first process is $5$ minutes and that of the second process is $30\,s$. The effective half-life of the nucleus is calculated to be $\frac{\alpha}{11}\,s$. The value of $\alpha$ is $..............$

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The half-life of a radioactive substance is $30$ minutes. The times (in minutes ) taken between $40\%$ decay and $85\%$ decay of the same radioactive substance is

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Two radioactive substances $A$ and $B$ have decay constants $5\lambda $ and $\lambda $ respectively. At $t = 0$, a sample has the same number of the two nuclei. The time taken for the ratio of the number of nuclei to become $(\frac {1}{e})^2$ will be

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The decay constant of a radioactive element is $1.5 \times {10^{ - 9}}$ per second. Its mean life in seconds will be