Question
If a piece of wood had 100 grams of carbon-14 in it when it was alive, how many grams of carbon-14 would it have after 1 half life?
Answers
GPT-4o mini
Carbon-14 has a half-life of about 5,730 years. After one half-life, half of the original amount of carbon-14 would remain.
If the piece of wood had 100 grams of carbon-14 when it was alive, after one half-life, it would have:
\[
\text{Remaining Carbon-14} = \frac{100 \text{ grams}}{2} = 50 \text{ grams}
\]
So, after one half-life, the piece of wood would have 50 grams of carbon-14 remaining.
If the piece of wood had 100 grams of carbon-14 when it was alive, after one half-life, it would have:
\[
\text{Remaining Carbon-14} = \frac{100 \text{ grams}}{2} = 50 \text{ grams}
\]
So, after one half-life, the piece of wood would have 50 grams of carbon-14 remaining.