In September of 1991 two German tourists found the well-preserved body of a man partially frozen in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. See the following figure. Through the carbon-dating technique it was found that the body of Ötzi the iceman€”as he came to be called€”contained 53% as much C-14 as found in a living person. Assume that the iceman was carbon dated in 1991. Use the method illustrated in Example 3 of Section 3.1 to fi­nd the approximate date of his death.

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