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The half-life of carbon- 14 is 5600 years. If charred logs from an old log cabin sow only 79% of the carbon-14 expected in living matter, when did the cabin burn down? Assume that the cabin burned soon after it was built from freshly cut logs. How many years ago did the cabin burn down?

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