Your mom asks you to transfer the rice in the pantry from the plastic sack it comes in to a rectangular storage container. The first container is 4 inches wide, 4 inches deep, and 12 inches high. The second container is 5 inches wide, 5 inches deep, and 8 inches high. Calculate the volume of both containers. Which container will hold more rice?

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.