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The half-life of Carbon-14 is 5,730 years. As such for the carbon-14 to decay from 100% to 12.5% it would take three times the half-life of the material.

100% (1st half life decay period) 50% (2nd half life decay period) 25% (3rd half life decay period) 12.5%.

Therefore = 5730 x 3 = 17,190 years.

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