It is shown that all 2-quasitraces on a unital exact C*-algebra are traces.
As consequences one gets: (1) Every stably finite exact unital C*-algebra has a
tracial state, and (2) if an AW*-factor of type II_1 is generated (as an
AW*-algebra) by an exact C*-subalgebra, then it is a von Neumann II_1-factor.
This is a partial solution to a well known problem of Kaplansky. The present
result was used by Blackadar, Kumjian and R{\o}rdam to prove that RR(A)=0 for
every simple non-commutative torus of any dimension
