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You Find the Frozen Remains of a Woolly Mammoth in an Alaskan

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You find the frozen remains of a woolly mammoth in an Alaskan glacier. You analyze a bit of the tusk and find that its ¹⁴C:¹²C ratio is about one-fourth (25%) of the baseline level typically found in living organisms. Given that the half-life of ¹⁴C is 5,730 years, when did the mammoth die?


A) 5,730 years ago
B) almost 12,000 years ago
C) at least 25,000 years ago
D) approximately 75,000 years ago

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