An archeologist unearths a bone sample and wants to know the age of the bone. Her chemist friend determines that 41.7% of the initial amount of carbon-14 in the bone sample has decayed. If the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, what is the age (in years) of bone?

An archeologist unearths a bone sample and wants to know the age of the bone. Her chemist friend determines that 41.7% of the initial amount of carbon-14 in the bone sample has decayed. If the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, what is the age (in years) of bone?

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An archeologist unearths a bone sample and wants to know the age of the bone. Her chemist
friend determines that 41.7% of the initial amount of carbon-14 in the bone sample has
decayed. If the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, what is the age (in years) of bone?

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