How old is the specimen, An archeological specimen

How old is the specimen

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An archeological specimen containing 3.4g of carbon has an activity of 0.33 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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