Half-Life Problem

You are working as an anthropologist, and

you find a well-preserved burial ground

containing wooden artifacts. You have

some of these dated using a 14C dating

technique and the results show that 35%

of the original 14C remains. Given that

the half-live of 14C is 5730 years, what

is the age of the burial site?

ln([A]t/[A]o)=-kt

Hint: calc. k using t½, then calc. age

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