Estimate how old is the specimen

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Review Multiple-Concept Example 11 for help in approaching this problem. An archeological specimen containing 8.8 g of carbon has an activity of 1.7 Bq. How old (in years) is the specimen? Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years, and an activity of 0.23 Bq per gram of carbon in a living organism.

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