# Carbon dating problems solutions

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However, I note that there is no beginning or ending amount given.

Carbon-14 dating can be used on objects ranging from a few hundred years old to 50,000 years old.

Libby and others (University of Chicago) devised a method of estimating the age of organic material based on the decay rate of carbon-14.

and (3) Is there a “correction factor” that can be applied to these age determinations to obtain the best possible Holocene (downcore) chronologies?

Ages of core top sediments range from 2000 to 21,000 = 28) are associated with (1) different sample preparation methods, (2) different sediment recovery systems, (3) different geographic regions, and (4) within-sample lateral age variability.

Statistical analysis on an design indicates that geographic area is the major cause of variability; there is a difference in mean surface sediment age of nearly 2000 yr between sites in the western Ross Sea and sites east of Ross Bank in south-central Ross Sea.

Archaeology has undoubtedly enriched mankind’s history like no other science.

Now, take the logarithm of both sides to get $$-0.693 = -5700k,$$ from which we can derive $$k \approx 1.22 \cdot 10^.$$ So either the answer is that ridiculously big number (9.17e7) or 30,476 years, being calculated with the equation I provided and the first equation in your answer, respectively.

How am I supposed to figure out what the decay constant is?

I can do this by working from the definition of "half-life": in the given amount of time (in this case, hours.

The dose I was given is -younger copy of an earlier document (in which case it is odd that there are no references to it in other documents, since only famous works tended to be copied), or, which is more likely, this is a recent forgery written on a not-quite-old-enough ancient parchment.