3. The radioactive substance lodine- 131 is used in medicine to measure liver and heart activity and in the treatment of certain cancers. It has a half- life of eight days, \( \mathrm{i} . \mathrm{e} \). the quantity of lodine-131 decays by a factor of 2 in eight days. A hospital purchases 30 g of the substance. In eight days 15 g remain. The decay can be modelled using the exponential model: \[ Q=a e^{b t} \] where \( a \) and \( b \) are constants, \( t \) is time measured in days and \( Q \) is the quantity of the substance. (i) Find the value of each of the constants \( a \) and \( b \). (ii) What quantity of the substance will remain after 20 days? (iii) Find the time taken for the substance to decay to 1.49 g .
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