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A radioactive sample consists of two distinct species having equal number of atoms initially. The mean life of one species is `tau` and that of the other is `5 tau`. The decay products in both cases are stable. A plot is made of the total number of radioactive nuclei as a function of time. Which of the following figure best represents the form of this plot?
(a), (b), (c), (d)

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(d) The total number of atoms neither remains constant (as in option (a) nor can ever increase (as in option (b) and ( c). They will continuously decrease with time. Therefore option (d) is correct.
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