What is the age of the object

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Problem- The carbon - 14 decay rate of a sample obtained from a young tree is 0.262 disintegration per second per gram of the sample. Another wood sample gives a decay rate of 0.180 disgeneration per second per gram of the sample. What is the age of the object (halflife of carbon-14 id 5715 years).

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