The half-life of uranium-235 is 700 million years. If you start with 10 atoms of it, how many will you have left after 700 million years?

A)5
B)0
C)9
D)20

A) 5

Half-life is the time it will take for a quantity to reduce to half its initial value. In this case, uranium will undergo radioactive decay, and after 700 mil years, 5 of the 10 uranium atoms will have decayed.

The correct answer is c

The correct answer is:       [c]:   "organisms that are sensitive to changes in temperature would die. "