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The amount of carbon-14 remaining in an organism, A, is equal to the product of the initial amount of carbon-14 in the organism, A0, and one-half to the power of n, where n is the number of half-lives the organism has experienced.

If a frog initially contained 32 grams of carbon-14 and the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years, how much carbon-14 remains in the frog after 17,190 years?

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2 grams

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The amount of carbon-14 remaining in an organism, A, is equal to the product of the initial amount of carbon-14 in the organism, A0, and one-half to the power of n, where n is the number of half-lives the organism has experienced.

If a frog initially contained 32 grams of carbon-14 and the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years, how much carbon-14 remains in the frog after 17,190 years?

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