A noise is being created by a chain saw emmiting a total sound power of 10 W uniformly in all directions. At what distance is the sound level at 100dB and 60dB. I am getting 25.3 and 25.8. Conceptually, I know that can't be right. I'm using dblog(I0 /10^-12), but I know I'm missing something.  Thank you for the help.

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A noise is being created by a chain saw emmiting a total sound power of 10 W uniformly in all directions. At what distance is the sound level at 100dB and 60dB.

I am getting 25.3 and 25.8. Conceptually, I know that can't be right. I'm using dblog(I0 /10^-12), but I know I'm missing something. 

Thank you for the help. 

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