An animal skeleton has a carbon-14 decay rate of 11.1 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon. When did the animal live? (Assume that living organisms have a carbon-14 decay rate of 15.3 disintegrations per minute per gram and that carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 yrs.)

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