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Once the activity of americium in a smoke detector falls below 5 percent of its original activity, it's no longer able to effectively detect smoke and trigger the alarm. If the half-life of americium-241 is approximately 432.2 years, how many years will it take before the americium-241 is unable to detect smoke?

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