Find the percentage of carbon-14 lasting longer than 10,000 years. a. Sketch the graph, and shade the

Question:

Find the percentage of carbon-14 lasting longer than 10,000 years.

a. Sketch the graph, and shade the area of interest.

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b. Find the probability. P(x > 10,000) = ________ Carbon-14 is a radioactive element with a half-life of about 5,730 years. Carbon-14 is said to decay exponentially. The decay rate is 0.000121. We start with one gram of carbon-14.
We are interested in the time (years) it takes to decay carbon-14.