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mwit1967

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on: Jul 15, 2018

Sources of uncertainty in radioactive dating do not include:a.
   loss of daughter isotope.
  b. uncertainty in decay constants.
  c. experimental and sample error.
  d. addition of parent isotope.
  e. questions about metamorphism



Question 2

If an isotope has a half-life of 50 million years and an 1/8 of the sample remaining consists of that
  isotope, the age of the rock from which it was taken is:
  a. 400 million years.
  b. 300 million years.
  c. 150 million years.
  d. 800 million years.
  e. none of the above



spencer.martell

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C


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