SOLUTION: Archaeology. Carbon dating is a method used to determine the age of a fossil or other organic remains. The age in years, t, is related to the mass (in milligrams) of carbon 14, C,

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Question 1058664: Archaeology. Carbon dating is a method used to determine the age of a fossil or other organic remains. The age in years, t, is related to the mass (in milligrams) of carbon 14, C, through a logarithmic equation:
t=-ln(C/500)/0.0001216
How old is a fossil that contains 183 milligrams of carbon 14? (Round to the nearest year.)
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substituting,
t=-ln(183/500)/0.0001216
that is 1.005/0.0001216
rounding only at the end, the value of t is 8265.81 years or 8266 years.