You uncovered a fossil that you suspect is around 100 million years old.Which of the radioisotope pairs in the table below could you eliminate as an appropriate choice for radioisotope dating the accompanying rock? 
A) Potassium-40/Argon-40 (half-life = 1.3 billion years;useful dating range =100,000-4.5 billion years)
B) Rubidium-87/Strontium-87 (half-life = 47 billion years;useful dating range = 10 million-
4) 5 billion years)
C) Uranium-235/Lead-207 (half-life = 710 million years;useful dating range = 10 million-4.5 billion years)
D) Carbon-14/Nitrogen-14 (half-life = 5,730 years;useful dating range = 100-50,000 years)
E) Uranium-238/Lead-206 (half-life 4.5 billion years;useful dating range = 10 million-4.5 billion years)
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