Posted by Josh on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 1:40am.
Let the half life be T years
2^(-4/T) = 200/220 = 0.9091
(-4/T) log 2 = log 0.9091
-4/T = -0.1375
T = 29.1 years
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