a half life of Carbon-14 is 5700 years, if you started with 200 gram sample of carbon-14, how much C-14 would be left after 28500 years? please show how to.

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JohnES
Apply the relation between half life and radiactive decay constant,

[tex]\lambda=\ln(2)/T_{1/2}[/tex]

Then, use the relation of radioactive desintegration,

[tex]N=N_0e^{-\lambda t}[/tex]

In this case, using the mass as N0, you will obtain,

[tex]N=6.25\ \ g[/tex]