You ask Alexa (a spherically symmetric speaker) to play your favorite Nickelback song. When you are standing 3.0 meters away, that sound reaches your ears at an intensity level of 50 decibels. Since you cannot hear the song clearly over the conversation happening next to you, you ask Alexa to increase her power and you also walk to a new location, now 4 meters from Alexa. By what factor must Alexa increase her power output to raise the intensity level you hear to 80 decibels at your new location (which will hopefully drown out the hipster talking now 1 m farther away from you about a band you've never heard of)?

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Calculating the Increase in Power Output Required To determine the factor by which Alexa must increa... View the full answer