The half-life for a 100-gram sample of radioactive element X is 5 days. How much of element X remains after 10 days have passed?

Sodium-24 has a half-life of approximately 15 hours. If only one-eighth of the sodium-24 remains, about how much time has passed?

After 10 days have passed, 50 grams of element X will remain. After 15 hours have passed, 12.5 grams of sodium-24 will remain.