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carbon from a cypress beam obtained from the tomb of an ancient egyptian king gave 9.2 disntegration/minute of C-14 per gram of carbon, carbon from living material gives 15.3 disintegration/minute of C-14 per gram of carbon, C-14 has a half-life of 5730 years, how old is the cypress beam?

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