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Potassium-40 decays to argon-40 with a half-life of 1.27 × 109 yr. The age of a mineral sample that has a mass ratio of 40Ar to 40K of 0.330 is ________ yr.
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2.55 × 109
1.77 × 109
3.62 × 108
5.23 × 108
3.85 × 109
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