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Q:

A particular organism well preserved in ice has been found to contain 5 mg of a radioactive particle X. Lifeforms usually contain around 40 mg of this particle. The half-life of X is around 20,000 years. Before this measurement of X, scientists believed that the organism was 100,000 years old. Their prediction was

A

Too low

B

Correct

C

Too high

D

Cannot be confirmed or negated by the data