You are standing in the middle of a large room listening to a cacaphony of sound

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You are standing in the middle of a large room listening to a cacaphony of sounds. Rank the intensity of the sounds from each source (1=loudest, 2= next loudest, ...) Consider all objects to be right next to you. If two values are within 0.1 dB from each other, consider them to be the same.
(1 2 3 4 5) Two buzzers each producing a sound with intensity level of 50 dB.
(1 2 3 4 5) An object emitting a sound with an intensity level of 60 dB.
(1 2 3 4 5) An object emitting a sound with an intensity of 1.0×10-9 W/m2.
(1 2 3 4 5) An object emitting a sound with an intensity level of 10dB.
(1 2 3 4 5) 100 buzzers each producing a sound with intensity level of 30 dB.

Explanation / Answer

2,3,4,5,1

100, 60,30,10,3000

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