The half-life of $1 \ g$ of a radioactive sample is $9 \ hours$. The radioactive decay obeys first-order kinetics. The time required for the original sample to reduce to $0.2 \ g$ is .......... $hours$.

  • A
    $15.6$
  • B
    $156$
  • C
    $20.9$
  • D
    $2.09$

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