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I have this question for school but I have no Idea how to answer it...Please Help....

 

Draw Curves showing how the relative amounts of a radioactive parent and a stable daughter can yeild an absolute date for a rock sample.

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Well, plot amount vs accuracy I would think.

 

As the the amount of radioative material inceased inthe rock the more accurate the reading will be :)

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

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If it's a stable daughter, then the total number of atoms will be constant. Try looking at Nparent/Ntotal and Ndaughter/Ntotal

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