In the south of France, archaeologists uncovered the most well-preserved cave paintings in the world. The paintings include hundreds of animals from what is believed to be two distinct time periods. Samples have been taken from torch marks and the paintings for dating. The torch sample was found to have 8.42 x 10^-15 grams of carbon-14. It is estimated it originally would have contained 5.81 × 10^-13. what age would the torch sample have been?

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To find the age of the torch sample we can use the formula for exponential decay ... View the full answer