Use this paragraph: The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,700 years. A certain sample of wood has 20 grams of carbon-14 when it is alive.

How many grams of carbon will it have after 5,700 years?

(1 point)
Responses

2 grams
2 grams

10 grams
10 grams

40 grams
40 grams

5 grams

1 answer

The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,700 years, meaning that after this period, half of the original amount of carbon-14 will remain.

If the sample of wood originally has 20 grams of carbon-14 when it is alive, after 5,700 years (one half-life), it will have:

20 grams / 2 = 10 grams of carbon-14.

So, the correct response is:

10 grams