piece of fossilized wood has a carbon 14 radioactivity that is one eighth that of new wood. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years how old is the wood?

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A piece of fossilized wood has a carbon 14 radioactivity that is one eighth that of new wood. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years how old is the wood?

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