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Purpose
Experimental instructions
Collect your set of wooden blocks (or dice) and beaker.
Record the initial number of blocks. Place them in the beaker and then tip them into the
tray. Remove any that fall with the coloured side up, and return the remainder to the beaker.
Tip these into the tray again and, as before, remove those that fall with the coloured side up.
Repeat the process about 20 times, until very few blocks remain.
If dice are used, then each time remove any that fall with the six (or any other chosen
number) uppermost.
Suggest how you might modify the experiment to simulate a source with a different half-life.
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