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Suppose that you want to find out how much gasoline is in an underground storage tank. You...

Suppose that you want to find out how much gasoline is in an underground storage tank. You pour in one gallon of gasoline that contains some radioactive material with a long half-life that gives off 5000 counts per minute. The next day, you remove a gallon from the underground tank and measure its radioactivity to be 10 counts per minute. How much gasoline is in the tank?

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