How Do You Calculate the Age of a Wooden Statue Using Carbon-14 Decay?

[KayD]

Homework Statement

If A is the amount of radioactive material present at time t, A_0_ was the amount present at t=0, and h is the materials half-life, then A=A_0_ 2^-t/h


Carbon-14 Dating: How old is a wooden statue that remains only one-third of its original carbon-14 content?

A(t)=A_0_a^t

The Attempt at a Solution

 

[tiny-tim]

Welcome to PF!

Hi KayD! Welcome to PF!

You want A(t) = Ao/3.

So Ao/3 = Ao 2^-t/h;

so … ?