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📅 NSB Middle School 2009🎓 MS🔄 Round 14#️⃣ Question 25🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

The decay rate of the radioactive isotope potassium-40 into stable argon-40 can be used to radiometrically date rocks. If it takes 1.28 billion years for half the potassium-40 to decay into argon-40, a rock that contains a 50/50 ratio of the two is how many billion years old, to the second decimal place?

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