can someone help or at least guide me i have five questions like this one and i never learned this but yet i still have it as hw. First one is:
1. A human piece of pottery is dated at 16,750 years old by using carbon -14. How many half lives have passed since the pottery was made?

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can someone help or at least guide me i have five questions like this one and i never learned this but yet i still have it as hw. First one is:
1. A human piece of pottery is dated at 16,750 years old by using carbon -14. How many half lives have passed since the pottery was made?

anonymous · Answer

@Whitemonsterbunny17

anonymous · Answer

its ok um do u knw anyone that does

anonymous · Answer

@.ahamed

anonymous · Answer

do u understand any of it ????

anonymous · Answer

its ok @.ahamed if u dont understand u can leave but thanks anyways :)

anonymous · Answer

@NoelGreco

noelgreco · Answer

By Googling Carbon 14 I was reminded that the half-life is 5730 years.  How many sets of that are in the given number of years?

anonymous · Answer

wat do u mean by sets?

anonymous · Answer

do u knw the formula if i am not given the weight and only the year and the carbon -14???

aaronq · Answer

$\sf \huge \# ~of~half-lives=\dfrac{time~passed}{half-life}$