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An old piece of wood has a carbon mass of 124 g and an activityof 13 Bq. How old is the song? The radioactive isotope of naturalcarbon has f = 1.3⋅10−12 parts and has a half life of 5730 years.The average for the year is 3.156⋅107 seconds. Please give youranswer in years (ie a).

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Activity R should be proportional to the number of radioactive nuclei N and inversely proportional to their half life t12 R0693N t12 where N is the number of radioactive    See Answer
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