A sample of a dish from an archaeological dig gave 18 500 disintegrations per gram of carbon per day .A 1.00-g sample of carbon from a modern source gave 22 080 disintegrations per day.If the decay constant of carbon-14 is 1.2 * 10-4 y-1,What is the age of the dish?
A) 1500 y
B) 8300 y
C) 68 000 y
D) 640 y
E) 30 000 y
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