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A sample of wood from an old Egyptian tomb is found to have a carbon-14 activity of 7.07 disintegrations per minute per gram of C, while a sample of wood from a newly-cut tree has a carbon-14 activity of 15.3 disintegrations per minute per gram of C. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. Calculate the age of the old wood

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