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Title: What is the estimated age of the archaeological sample?
Post by: Annonn on Apr 12, 2022
You are asked to help with the radiodating of a plant based sample excavated from an archaeological site. The rate of 14C decay in the sample is 42.0% of the 14C decay rate in a living plant. What is the estimated age of the archaeological sample? (The half-life for 14C is 5730 years.)

7.17 x 103 years

1.21 x 103 years

8.68 x 103 years

3.47 x 103 years

6.82 x 103 years


Title: Re: What is the estimated age of the archaeological sample?
Post by: Yeah.Yeah. on Apr 13, 2022
done