Explain how old is a wood sample that gives a rate


Carbon-14, which is present in allliving tissue, radioactively decays via a first-order process. Aone-gram sample of wood taken from a living tree gives a rate forcarbon-14 decay of 13.6 counts per. If the half-life for carbon-14is 5720 years, how old is a wood sample that gives a rate forcarbon-14 decay of 3.9 counts per minute?

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