Element x decays radioactively with a half life of 8 minutes. if there are 450 grams of element x, how long, to the nearest tenth of a minute, would it take the element to decay to 37 grams?
Samantha swam upstream for some distance in one hour. she then swam downstream the same river for the same distance in only 12 minutes. if the river flows at 4 mph, how fast can samantha swim in still water?