An Anthropologists can estimate the age of bone by its C-14 isotope content (carbon-fourteen). The C-14 in a living organism is constant until it dies at which point it decays following first- order kinetics with a half-life of 5730 years. If a bone has 19.5% of the C-14 found in living organisms, how old is the bone. Give your answer in years to 3 significant figures.

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An Anthropologists can estimate the age of bone by its C-14 isotope content (carbon-fourteen). The C-14 in a living organism is constant until it dies at which point it decays following first- order kinetics with a half-life of 5730 years. If a bone has 19.5% of the C-14 found in living organisms, how old is the bone. Give your answer in years to 3 significant figures.
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