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Taking the data from last problem and assuming that 18% of our body mass is made up of carbon, calculat e the number of beta particles being emitted from the body of a man of mass 50kg in one minute. Assume beta activity due to radiocarbon only.

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`1.41xx10^(5)` per minute
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