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The ratio of the abundance of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in a sample of dead wood is one quarter the ratio for living wood. If the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, which one of the following expressions determines how many years ago the wood died?
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N = N0 *(1/2)^t/tau, the tree died 2* 5730 years ago
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