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Relative atomic mass

The heaviest of the isotopes found in naturally occurring tellurium is tellurium-130 which has a relative mass of 129.906223. Technically,tellurium-130 is slightly radioactive and if there were none in the naturally occurring element,the relative atomic mass of tellurium would be 126.412449. Calculate the percentage of tellurium-130 in naturally occurring tellurium.

I’ve found the difference between the two so far but don’t know what to do next.
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remember you know the RAM of tellerium from the periodic table which is the average mass of it's isotopes.
if you know the mass of one of it's isotopes and the RAM, you can find the percentage of each isotope

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