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The radioactive substance strontium-90 has a half-life of 28years. In other words, it takes 28 years for half of a given quanity of strontium-90 to decay to a non-radio active substance. The amount of radioactive strontium-90 still present after t years is modeled by the expression 80*2^-t/28 grams. Evaluate the expression for t=0,t=28 and t=56. What does each value of the expression represent?

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