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Okay, in our scenario here, a fossilized leaf contains 28 % of its normal amount of carbon 14.
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How old is the fossil? it's in the next year.
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So to help with this, i've created a model based on the scenario.
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We got the amount of the initial amount.
00:16
That stays the same.
00:17
But half -life i'm going to represent as that's my factor, or raise the power of, in this case, time divided by 5 ,600.
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5 ,600 is the half -life number of years.
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So in the scenario, the initial amount doesn't matter because if i divided away, i get the same thing.
00:37
So, or if i divided it away here, that's going to be gone.
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This right here is representing the ratio of the amount divided by the original amount.
00:47
Well, there's 28 % remaining.
00:49
This is going to turn into 0 .28...
