A mammoth skeleton has a carbon-14 decay rate of 0.48

Chapter 19, Problem 54E

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A mammoth skeleton has a carbon-14 decay rate of 0.48 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon ( 0.48 dis/min  g C ). When did the mammoth live? (Assume that living organisms have a carbon-14 decay rate of 15.3 dis/min  g C and that carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 yr.)

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