So, the scientist would find C14-to-C12 ratios ranging from: .34 \times 10^$- to - [insert 000$ year calculation here].The method of carbon dating makes use of the fact that all living organisms contain two isotopes of carbon, carbon-12, denoted 12C (a stable isotope), and carbon-14, denoted 14C (a radioactive isotope).The question is a paleontologist discovers remains of animals that appear to have died at the onset of the Holocene ice age, between 1000 years ago.what range of C^14 to C^12 ratio would the scientist expect to find in the animal remains?There are several ways to figure out relative ages, that is, if one thing is older than another.

If possible, the ink should be tested, since a recent forgery would use recently-made ink.

Im not really sure how to go about solving this problem, any help would be apprecaited.

The exponential decay formula is given by: $$m(t) = m_0 e^$$ where $\displaystyle r = \frac$, $h$ = half-life of Carbon-14 = 30$years,$m_0\$ is of the initial mass of the radioactive substance.

How am I supposed to figure out what the decay constant is?

I can do this by working from the definition of "half-life": in the given amount of time (in this case, hours.

Above is a graph that illustrates the relationship between how much Carbon 14 is left in a sample and how old it is.