Imagine you are at a location where some incident light source provides light at an intensity of 25 W/m^2. Now you move 5 time closer to the light source (aka your distance is 1/5 its initial value). What is the intensity of the light at this new location

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Imagine you are at a location where some incident light source provides light at an intensity of 25 W/m^2. Now you move 5 time closer to the light source (aka your distance is 1/5 its initial value). What is the intensity of the light at this new location 

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