Explain how long until the radioactive isotope decays

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A patient is given 0.050 mg of technetium-99m where m means metastable- an unstable but long lived state), a radioactive isotope with a half-life of about 6.0 hours. Explain how long until the radioactive isotope decays to 6.3 * 10-3 mg?

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