Using and Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach plus NEW MyMathLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (6th Edition) (Bennett Science & Math Titles)
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Chapter 9.C, Problem 8QQ
The half-life of carbon-14 is 5700 years, and carbon-14 is incorporated into the bones of a living organism only while it is alive. Suppose you have found a human hone at an archaeological site and you want to use carbon-14 to determine how long ago the person died. Which of the following additional pieces of information would allow you to do the calculation?
- only the amount of carbon-14 in the hone today
- both the amount of carbon-14 in the bone today and the rate at which carbon-14 decays
- both the amount of carbon-14 in the bone today and the amount it contained at the time the person died
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