Question 2.
The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen bearing the image of a man that has for generations been claimed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. If the activity of C-14 in a present-day sample of flax (from which linen is made) is 76 counts/s, and that in a sample of the shroud is 70 counts/s, how old is the shroud? In approximately what year was it made? Could it have been the burial cloth of Christ?
Question 3.
Given the inaccuracies in reading the Geiger counter scale and in estimating the age of an object from the graph, give a rough estimate of the error (+/-years) in the ages you determined in questions 1 and 2?