The half-life of radioactive parent isotope Q is 500 million years. Scientists testing a rock sample discover that the sample contains an equal number of daughter and parent isotopes. What is the age of the rock?

  1. 500 million
  2. 1000 million
  3. 1500 million
  4. 2000 million
     


500 million

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