Consider a radioactive material of half-life $1.0 \, \text{minute}$. If one of the nuclei decays now,the next one will decay
- AAfter $1 \, \text{minute}$
- BAfter $\frac{1}{\log_e 2} \, \text{minute}$
- CAfter $\frac{1}{N} \, \text{minute}$,where $N$ is the number of nuclei present at that moment
- DAfter any time
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