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What is the similarity between relative dating and radioactive dating?

Both study the decay of atomic particles.
They both determine the exact age of rocks.
Both are used to determine the age of objects.
They both provide a range of years of an object.
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They both provide a range of years of an object.

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Similarity between relative dating and radioactive dating is they both provide a range of years of an object.

Answer: Option C

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Relative dating is a method by which we get to know the age of fossil and this age is determined by comparing the fossil with the other fossils and rocks which are of almost the same age as that of the fossil.

But the age determined through this is not exact and is approximate. Radio active dating is a method with which we determine the age of the fossil but the age given by this method is a precise and exact age of the fossil unlike the relative dating which gives an idea of the age.

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