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A hospital keeps a radioactive solution whose half-life is 2.5 days. Ten days after the solution is made, by what factor is the number of radioactive nuclei smaller than at the start?

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A hospital keeps a radioactive solution whose half-life is $2.5$ days. Ten days after the solution is made, by what factor is the number of radioactive nuclei smaller than at the start?

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