Dinosaur fossils are too old to be reliably dated using carbon-14, which has a half-life of about 5730 years. suppose we had a 68 million year old dinosaur fossil. how much of the living dinosaur's 14c would be remaining today? (round your answer to five decimal places.)

Explanation:

The half-life of a radioisotope, in this case carbon-14, is the time that a sample requires to reduce its amount to half, and it is a constant for every radioisotope (it does not change with the amount of sample).

Then, the formula for the remaining amount of a radioisotope is:

Where:

The number of half-lives for carbon-14 elapsed for the dinosaur fossil is:

Then, A / A₀ = (1/2)ⁿ = (1/2)¹¹⁸⁶⁷ ≈ 0.00000 .

The number is too small, and when you round to five decimal places the result is zero. That is why carbon-14 cannot be used to date dinosaur fossils, given that they are too old.

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