An article on the "Iceman" stated that the frozen corpse was 5,000 to 5,500 years old. Assuming the corpse was 5,200 years old, how much carbon-14 should it contain? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number. Use the fact that the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years.)

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An article on the "Iceman" stated that the frozen corpse was 5,000 to 5,500 years old. Assuming the corpse was 5,200 years old, how much carbon-14 should it contain? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number. Use the fact that the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years.)

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