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I don't know how to set up the problem to solve it with the equation to use. C-14 activity of one of the youngest mammoths was measured at 1.5 disintegrations per minute gram of carbon. How many years ago did the Siberian mammoths become extinct?

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This solution helps set up a problem involving carbon dating.

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Radioactive decay follows the first order rate law.

A useful form of the equation describing this relationship can be written as:

log N = log No - 0.301 t / t 1/2

where N is the number of atoms of C present, No is the number of atoms of C present initially, t ...

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