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Suppose that you want to find out how much gasoline is in an underground storage tank. you pour in 1 gallon of gasoline that contains some radioactive material with a long half-life that gives off 5500 counts per minute. the next day, you remove a gallon from the underground tank and measure its radioactivity to be 10 counts per minute.
1. how much gasoline is in the tank?

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