A 2000-year-old piece of dead wood gives 1400 counts per week in our detector system.How many counts per week would our system detect if the wood were living? (The half-life of 14C is 5730 years.)
A) 1520 counts per week
B) 3200 counts per week
C) 1270 counts per week
D) 1780 counts per week
E) 2130 counts per week
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