It will take 56 days to go from 100%
iodine-131 to less than 1% iodine-131.
From the table, we can see that the half life of iodine-131 is 8 days. We can see that it takes 8 days to have 50% of iodine-131
After 16 days, we will have 25 % of iodine-131
After 24 days, we will have 12.5 % of iodine-131
After 32 days, we will have 6.25% of iodine-131
After 40 days, we will have 3.125% of iodine-131
After 48 days, we will have 1.5625% of iodine-131
After 56 days, we will have 0.78125% of iodine-131
After 56 days, the percentage of iodine-131 drops to less than 1%.
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