B5. A living tree has a carbon-14 decay rate of 13.6 counts per minute per gram. An old driedpiece of wood from the same type of tree has a decay rate of 3.4 counts per minute pergram.(a) Estimate the age of the old piece of wood. The half life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.(b) How many counts per minute per gram will be measured if the wood was 18,000 yearsold?Express the values to 3 significant figures, if necessary.

(a) To estimate the age of the old piece of wood, we can use the formula for exponential decay:…

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