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Use the exponential decay model for carbon-14, A = A0e-0.000121t, to solve Exercises 19-20.
Skeletons were found at a construction site in San Francisco in 1989. The skeletons contained 88% of the expected amount of carbon-l4 found in a living person. In 1989, how old were the skeletons?
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