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                Radioactive uranium-235 has a half-life of about 700 million years. Suppose you find a rock and chemical analysis tells you that only one sixteenth
of the rock's original uranium-235 remains. How old is the rock?
            
            
        of the rock's original uranium-235 remains. How old is the rock?
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                    Answered by
            scott
            
    1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/16 ... 4 half-lives ... 4 * 700 million = ?
alternatively ... (1/2)^n = 1/16 ... n log(1/2) = log(1/16)
... n = number of half-lives
    
alternatively ... (1/2)^n = 1/16 ... n log(1/2) = log(1/16)
... n = number of half-lives
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