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Table \ref{table:Final_values} shows the amount of possible muons through the scintillator, the number of muons that decayed within the scintillator, and the percent of the decayed muons over the total muons through the scintillator. As you can see, only $1.6\%$ of the possible muons decayed. This means, that we know there were $19,754$ muons that passed through the scintillator, but $98.4\%$ of the possible muons did not decay. We can conclude that a good portion of the $98.4\%$ cosmic rays passing through the scintillator would be muons, but without a decay it is impossible to be certain.  Because $1,225,354$ cosmic rays passed through the scintillator in a time period of $13.95$ days, we can calculate how many cosmic rays hit our detector each minute and second. After doing this, we found that 1.0163/second cosmic rays (possible muons) hit our detector, which means about one cosmic ray hits our detector per minute.  \begin{table}   \label{table:muon_decay}  \begin{tabular}{ c c }