3. A certain radioactive material is known to decay at a rate proportional to the amount present. Ifinitially there is 50 mg of the material present and after 2 hours it is observed that the materiallost 20% of its original mass, a) find the mass of the material after 5 minutes, and b) the time atwhich the material has decayed to one-half of its initial mass.

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