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Many scholars believe that the earliest nonnative settlers of North America were Vikings who sailed from Iceland. If a fragment of a wooden tool found and dated in 2004 had $88.3 \%$ of the amount of carbon-14 in a living sample, when was this tool made?
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000124t}$, where $A$ is the final amount of carbon-14, $A_0$ is the initial amount, $t$ is the time in years, and $0.000124$ is the decay constant for carbon-14. Show more…
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