State the nuclear transmutation

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1. In the nuclear transmutation represented by 23994Pu(42He,10n)?, what is the product?

uranium-242
uranium-243
curium-245
uranium-245
curium-242

2. The cloth shroud from around a mummy is found to have a 14C activity of 8.8 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon as compared with living organisms that undergo 15.2 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon.

From the half-life for 14C decay, 5715 yr, calculate the age of the shroud

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