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Transcribed Image Text:Calculate the sound intensity
level in decibels for a sound wave
traveling in air at 0 °C and having
a pressure amplitude of 0.656 Pa.
(speed of sound%3D331 m/s, air
( density= 1.29 kg/m3
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