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Models & Qualitative Behavior · Challenge problem

A radioactive parent isotope with a half-life of 11 day decays into a daughter isotope, which itself decays with a half-life of 22 days. A sample starts with 10001000 parent atoms and no daughter atoms. What is the largest number of daughter atoms present at any time?