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Potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.26 × 109 yr, decaying to calcium-40 and argon-40 in a ra...

Potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.26 × 109 yr, decaying to calcium-40 and argon-40 in a ratio of 8.54 to 1. If a rock sample contained no argon when it formed a solid but now contains one argon-40 atom for every potassium-40 atom, how old is the rock?

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