Ms. Okeke’s students plant flowers in the beds around the school as a service project. There are two round beds, one with an area of 128 square feet and the other with an area of 396 square feet. They also plant the bed that runs in front of the building. This bed is rectangular and is 268 feet long by 4 feet wide. What is the total area of the flower beds they plant?

Adecibel is a logarithmic unit that can be used to measure the intensity of a sound. the function y = 10logx gives the intensity of a sound in decibels, where x is the ratio of the intensity of the sound to a reference intensity. the reference intensity is generally set at the threshold of hearing. use the graphing utility to graph the decibel function.a whisper has a sound intensity of 30 decibels. use your graph to you complete the following statement. the sound intensity of a whisper is times the reference intensity.