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An artifact originally had 16 grams of carbon-14 present. The decay model A = 16 e -0.000121t describes the amount of carbon-
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A(t) is the amount of carbon-14 present as a function of time (t):

A(t) = 16e-0.000121t

For t = 7367 years:

A(t=7367) = 16e-0.000121*7367

A(t) = 16e-0.891407

A(t) = 6.561254

A(t) ≈ 7grams

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