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For a selected atom in a sample of a radioactively decaying isotope, the probability that it will decay during a time interval of a specified length is

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dependent on how long it has been since t = 0.

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independent of when the time interval starts relative to the current time.

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dependent upon how old the atom is.

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fundamentally unpredictable.

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