An archaeologist finds carbon

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An archaeologist finds Carbon-14 in a sample of 3.10g of material to be decaying at 107 counts per second. A modern 1.00g sample of the same material decays at 151 counts per second. How old is the sample? (Half-life of Carbon-14 is 5730)

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