If the Milky Way formed stars at approximately a constant rate over the last 14 billion years,what fraction of the M stars that ever formed in it can still be found as main-sequence stars today? Note that M stars have a mass of approximately
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A) 10 percent
B) 33 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 100 percent
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