Multiple Choice
The half life of carbon 14 is 5730 years. If a 1-gram sample of old carbon is 1/8 as radioactive as 1-gram of a current sample, then the age of the old sample is about
A) 11,500 years.
B) 46,000 years.
C) 716 years.
D) 17,200 years.
E) 22,900 years.
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