SOLUTION: A piece of charcoal is found to contain 39% of the element B that it originally had.
(a) When did the tree from which the charcoal came die? Use 5600 years as the half
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Question 1153384: A piece of charcoal is found to contain 39% of the element B that it originally had.
(a) When did the tree from which the charcoal came die? Use 5600 years as the half-life of the element B.
(b) Using a graphing utility, graph the relation between the percentage of the element B remaining and time.
(c) Using INTERSECT, determine the time that elapses until half of the the element B remains.
(d) Verify the answer found in part (a).
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A possible start can be , and that when one half-life has gone by.
You can do the rest of this.
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