Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 5,730 years. How much carbon-14 would remain in a sample that is 11,460 years old?
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Half-life (t½) is the amount of time required for a quantity to fall to half its value as measured at the beginning of the time period. In this question (t½) of C-14 is 5730 years, which means that after 5730 years half of the sample would have decayed and half would be left as it is.
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