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Carbon-14 Has a Half-Life of 5715 Years

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Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5715 years.Currently living organisms decay at a rate of 15.3 disintegrations/ min per gram of carbon.If an archeological artifact has a carbon-14 decay rate of 12.0 disintegrations/ min per gram of carbon,the approximate age of the artifact is ________ years old.

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