An ancient skull has a carbon-14 decay rate of 0.85 disintegration per minute per gram of carbon

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An ancient skull has a carbon-14 decay rate of 0.85 disintegration per minute per gram of carbon (0.85 dis/min · g C). How old is the skull? (Assume that living organisms have a carbon-14 decay rate of 15.3 dis/min · g C and that carbon-14 has a half-life of 5715 yr.)

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