Carbon-14 is a radioactive form of carbon. carbon-12 is the most common type of carbon. the ratio of these two atoms stays constant in living things but changes after an organism dies since carbon-14 continues to decay while the amount of carbon-12 remains the same. the half-life of carbon-14 is nearly six-thousand years. if you found a bone that had no measureable amount of carbon-14 in it, what could you conclude about the animal the bone came from? a. it died recently. b. it died less than six-thousand years ago. c. it died more than six-thousand years ago. d. nothing, since more information is needed to answer this question.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.