A papyrus scroll was buried with King Tutankhamen 3330 years ago. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730

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A papyrus scroll was buried with King Tutankhamen 3330 years ago. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. The papyrus scroll sample had an initial decay of 15.3 disintegrations per minute per gram carbon. What is the current decay rate of the sample? (The decay rate is proportional to the amount of C-14 present.)

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