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Homework Statement
In 1991, hikers found the frozen remains of a man in a glacier in the Alps, near the Austrian-Italian border. Carbon-14 analysis of tissue samples taken from the body revealed that the ratio of carbon-14 was 52.7% of what it was originally. Calculate the age of the body.
Homework Equations
N = No (1/2) (t/T(1/2))
(half-life equation)
The Attempt at a Solution
First I rearranged N = No (1/2) (t/T(1/2)) and adding the information to it.
I got t = 5730 yrs [log(0.527) / log(.5)]
after i did the calculations i found that
t = 5295 yrs.
So the age of the body should be approx. 5295 yrs old.
Can someone confirm please? thanks