Solved: Carbon Dating In Exercises 7578, you are given the ratio of carbon atoms in a
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Carbon Dating In Exercises 7578, you are given the ratio of carbon atoms in a fossil. Use the information to estimate the age of the fossil. In living organic material, the ratio of radioactive carbon isotopes to the total number of carbon atoms is about 1 to (See Example 2 in Section 4.1.) When organic material dies, its radioactive carbon isotopes begin to decay, with a half-life of about 5715 years. So, the ratio R of carbon isotopes to carbon-14 atoms is modeled by where t is the time (in years) and represents the time when the organic material died. R 0.13 1012
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