The dimensions of a rectangular section of forest land are 5.5 x 105 meters and 4.2 x 104 meters. Complete the following sentences. 2.31 x 103 2.31 x 104 2.31 x 105 23.1 x 10 2.31 1010 23.1 * 1010 square meters square kilometers The area of the land is square meters in scientific notation. We can represent this area as square kilometers in scientific notation. Hint: 1 square kilometer is equal to 1 * 106 square meters. The unit is more appropriate to represent the area of the forest land in scientific notation

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.