Questions: All dating schemes that are presently used to determine the absolute age of Earth material involve the decay or breakdown of an unstable parent element to a more stable daughter element. The time it takes for half of the original parent material to be converted to daughter material is referred to as the half-life. Assuming a given parent/daughter dating scheme has a half-life of 2,000 years, what would be the age of an object where only 12.5% of the parent remained? - 15,000 years - 50,000 years - 100,000 years - 6,000 years - 25,000 years

Transcript text: Copyright O The McGraw-Hal Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. All dating schemes that are presently used to determine the absolute age of Earth material involve the decay or breakdown of an unstable parent element to a more stable daughter element. The time it takes for half of the original parent material to be converted to daughter material is referred to as the half-life. Assuming a given parent/daughter dating scheme has a half-life of 2,000 years, what would be the age of an object where only $12.5 \%$ of the parent remained? 15,000 years 50,000 years 100,000 years 6,000 years 25,000 years