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For a Selected Atom in a Sample of a Radioactively

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For a selected atom in a sample of a radioactively decaying isotope, the probability that it will decay during a time interval of a specified length is


A) dependent on how long it has been since t = 0.
B) independent of when the time interval starts relative to the current time.
C) dependent upon how old the atom is.
D) fundamentally unpredictable.

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