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Carbon `-14` decays with half-life of about `5, 800` years. In a sample of bone, the ratio of carbon `-14` to carbon `-12` is found to be `(1)/(4)` of what it is in free air. This bone may belong to a period about `x` centuries ago. Where `x` nearest to

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