Explain what is the age of the object

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Living wood has a carbon-14 specific activity of 15.3 disintegrations per minute (dpm) per gram of carbon. A wood sample taken from an object recovered at an archaeological excavation a specific activity of 7.10 dpm per gram carbon. what is the age of this object? (The half-life if carbon-14 is 5730 yr.)

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