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I have since figured this out. For those who may want to reference this in the future, here's what I did. I took the graph of environmental C-14 and linearized it into an equation from the year 1500 to 1900. Since the current-day value of C-14 is only 190ng and the environmental levels are no...

Homework Statement An antiques dealer has claimed that a tapestry is 2000 years old having been loomed sometime in the first century BC. In order to determine the veracity of this claim a sample of Carbon-14 has been taken for dating. In a 1g sample, 190ng of Carbon-14 were present. The...