Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-An artifact is discovered at a certain site. If it has $65 \%$ of the carbon-14 it originally contained, what is the approximate age of the artifact to the nearest year? (carbon-14 decays at the rate of $0.0125 \%$ annually.)

A) $5200 \mathrm { yr }$
B) $1497 \mathrm { yr }$
C) $2800 \mathrm { yr }$
D) $3446 \mathrm { yr }$