You’ve found some fossil bones while digging in your backyard. Could they be dinosaur bones? Using carbon dating, you determine that 3% of the original radioactive carbon-14 is still radioactive. (The rest has decayed into nitrogen-14.) How many half-life cycles has it gone through? Approximately half-life cycles.

the answer is the first option

explanation:

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1. for the first question, we must find the mass of the anhydrous salt, mgso₄. the molar mass for mgso₄·7h₂o is 246.47 g/mol, while that of mgso₄ is 120.37 g/mol.7.834 g mgso₄·7h₂o * 1 mol mgso₄·7h₂o/246.47 g * 1 mol mgso₄/1 mol mgso₄·7h₂o * 20.37 g mgso₄/mol = 0.647 g mgso₄

2. mass of water = mass of sample - mass of anhydrous salemass of water = 7.834 - 0.647 = 7.19 gpercent water in hydrate = 7.19/7.834 * 100 = 91.74%