SOLUTION: The burial cloth of an Egyptian mummy is estimated to contain 59% of the carbon-14 it contained originally. How long ago was the mummy buried? (the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 y

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: The burial cloth of an Egyptian mummy is estimated to contain 59% of the carbon-14 it contained originally. How long ago was the mummy buried? (the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.) This question is from textbook Precalculus

Answer by Nate(3500) About Me  (Show Source):
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x amount of 5730 years has passed
there was originally y amount of carbon-14
now, there is 0.59y left of the carbon-14
0.59y = y(0.5)^(x)
0.59 = (0.5)^x
log(0.59) = x * log(0.5)
log(0.59) / log(0.5) = x
x = about 0.76 amount of 5730 years
Product = 4,361.75 years about