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The half-life of carbon-14 is 5600 years. If a piece of charcoal made from the wood of a tree show ...
The half-life of carbon-14 is 5600 years. If a piece of charcoal made from the wood of a tree shows only \( 61 \% \) of the carbon-14 expected in living matter, when did the tree die? The tree died about years ago. (Do not round until the final answer. Then round to the nearest whole number.)