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canyou assign a half-life to a population of human? e.g.can you find agroup of 1000 people born in 2000, and note that 500 of them arestill alive in 2050, and thereby deduce that 260 of them will bealive in 2100? explain the difference between the death rates ofpeople and the death rates of radioactive atoms.

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No We cant assign such a halflife time for human population Note that the reason why we can do it radioactive nuclei is that their rate of decay is proportional to the number of nuclei present at any    See Answer
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