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penguins

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on: Jul 12, 2013
) If the half-life of carbon-14 is about 5,730 years, then a fossil that has one-sixteenth the normal proportion of carbon-14 to carbon-12 should be about how many years old?
A) 1,400
B) 2,800
C) 11,200
D) 16,800
E) 22,900


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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2013
I know it's E, we did this last month ;)


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Reply #2 on: Jul 18, 2013
Thank you, thank you!!


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