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Question If the intensity of a sound is increased by a factor of 100, how is the decibel level changed? The new decibel level will be: 1) two units greater. 2) double the old one. 3) ten times greater. 4) twenty units greater. 5) ten units greater.
Answer twenty units greater.

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