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DerKrebs [107]
3 years ago
6

A spruce tree trunk has been found preserved in glacial till. Samples taken from the trunk have been found to contain approximat

ely 12.5% of Carbon-14. How many half-lives have elapsed since this tree was buried?
Geography
1 answer:
faust18 [17]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

three half-lives

Explanation:

Converting 12.5% to decimal gives 0.125

If one half life is 0.5.

0.5*0.5*0.5 gives 0.125

Thus 3-half lives has been elapsed

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