Plutonium 239 decays continuously at a rate of 0.00284% per year. If X is the time a randomly chosen plutonium atom will decay, write down the associated probability density function and use it to compute the probability that a plutonium atom will decay between 100 and 500 years from now.

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The Answer of Plutonium 239 decays continuously at a rate of 0.00284% per year. If X is the time a randomly chosen plutonium atom will decay, write down the associated probability density function and use it to compute the probability that a plutonium atom will decay between 100 and 500 years from now.

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