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Carbon-14 Measurements on the Linen Wrappings from the Book of Isaiah

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Carbon-14 measurements on the linen wrappings from the Book of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls indicated that the scrolls contained 79.5% of the carbon-14 found in living tissue.At the time they were analyzed, approximately how old were these scrolls? The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.)


A) 5.73 *102 years
B) 8.20 *102 years
C) 1.31 *103 years
D) 1.90 * 103 years
E) 4.56 *103 years

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