A Piece of Fossilized Wood Has a Carbon-14 Radioactivity That

question 60

Multiple Choice

A piece of fossilized wood has a carbon-14 radioactivity that is 1/4 that of new wood.The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.How old is the cloth?

• A)1 × 5730 = 5730 years
• B)2 × 5730 = 11,460 years
• C)3 × 5730 = 17,190 years
• D)0)25 × 5730 = 1432 years

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