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Show that, if one sound is 10 decibels louder than a second sound, than the first sound is 10 times as intense as the second sound.

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That is how decibels are defined. A ten decibel difference is a factor of ten in intesity (power/area)

dB2 - dB1 = 10 log(10) I2/I1
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