As an AI language model, I do not have access to the most recent scientific data, but I can tell you that radiocarbon dating is a technique used to determine the age of organic materials based on the amount of carbon-14 they contain. Carbon-14 has a half-life of about 5,700 years, which means that after that time period, half of the original amount of carbon-14 would have decayed into carbon-12.
If a fossil contains only 25% of the original amount of carbon-14, it would mean that 75% of the carbon-14 has decayed into carbon-12. Using the half-life of carbon-14, scientists can calculate the number of half-lives that have passed. In this case, three half-lives (17,100 years) have passed since the fossil was formed. However, it is important to note that other factors such as the variability of carbon-14 in the environment can affect the accuracy of the dating.
If it found that a fossil contain only 25% of the original amount of c-14 what wilbe that age
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