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Determining the exact age of a fossil by using carbon dating and half-life

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you need to multiply your number of half-lives by how many years are in one half-life. This gives you an age of 2 x 5730 = 11,460 years. Your fossil is of an organism (maybe human) that died 11,460 years ago

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