Bones found in the Lascaux Caves in France have a carbon-14 disintegration rate of 2.25 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon. If the rate of decay rate of carbon-14 at the time of death is 13.6 counts per minute per gram of carbon, calculate the age of the remnants. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.

14873 years

Step-by-step explanation:

The exponential decay of the ¹⁴C can be expressed as follows:

             (1)

where Nt: is the disintegration per minute per gram of carbon that has not yet decayed after a time t = 2.25, N₀: is the initial disintegration per minute per gram of carbon = 13.6 (at the time of death), λ: is the decay constant and t: is time.  

The half-life of carbon-14 is related to the decay constant by the following equation:

             (2)

Hence, by entering equation (2) into (1) we have:  

     (3)

Now, by solving equation (3) for t, we can find the age of the remnants:

Therefore, the age of the remnants is 14873 years.

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