Jet aircraft maintenance crews are required to wear protective earplugs. Members of a particular crew wear earplugs that reduce the sound intensity by a factor of 215. If, when the jet is fired up, the sound intensity level experienced by the crew members wearing protective earplugs is 87 dB, determine the sound intensity level they would experience without the earplugs.

So the sound intensity level they would experience without the earplugs is 110.32dB.

Explanation:

Given data

Sound intensity by factor =215

Sound intensity level =87 dB

To find

Sound intensity level they would experience without the earplugs

Solution

First we need to find the new sound intensity level

So

The dB can be calculated as:

Substitute the given values

So the sound intensity level they would experience without the earplugs is 110.32dB.

i don't know that i agree with that but what's the question ?

the total distance that martina travels that day is

(distance from home to mom's office) plus (distance from mom's office to school)

plus (distance from school to library) plus (distance from library to friend's house)

plus (distance from friend's house to martina's house).

(we don't know what any of these distance actually is.)