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GREYUIT [131]
2 years ago
8

The isotope known as carbon-14 is radioactive and will decay into the stable form nitrogen-14. As long as an organism is alive,

it ingests air, and the level of carbon-14 in the organism remains the same. When it dies, it no longer absorbs carbon-14 from the air, and the carbon-14 in the organism decays.
The half-life of carbon-14 is 5770 years. Assume an organic sample is 15,000 years old.

Determine how many half-lives are in 15,000 years. Then use this answer to determine what percentage of the original amount of carbon-14 remains after 15,000 years. Round your answer as a percentage to the nearest whole number.
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Mathematics
2 answers:
podryga [215]2 years ago
8 0

9514 1404 393

Answer:

  • about 2.6 half-lives
  • 16% remains

Step-by-step explanation:

The number of half-lives is ...

  (15000 yr)/(5770 yr/half-life) = 2.6 half-lives

__

Then the amount of C14 remaining after 15000 years is ...

  0.5^2.6 ≈ 0.1649 ≈ 16%

SpyIntel [72]2 years ago
3 0
The half life would be about 3 so making the percentage About 25%
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