An old bone sample contains 321. grams of carbon and its activity is 947. decays/min. (5730. yr half life of Carbon-14) (a) How many thousand years old is the sample? (b) What will be the activity of the sample 2000. yrs from now?

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(a) 14. thousand years old
(b) 743. decays/min

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