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The half-life of carbon 14 is 5730 years. If a 1-gram sample of old carbon is 1/8 as radioactive as 1-gram of a current sample, then the age of the old sample is about?

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Answer:

The age of the sample will decrease by 1/2 for each half-life that the sample undergoes:

1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/8

The data indicates that the sample has undergone 3 half-lives of decay

3 * 5730 = 17190 yrs is the approximate age of the sample

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