You are studying in your room, and your neighbor is listening to the news on television at a loud volume in the adjacent room. When you gently request your neighbor to turn the volume down until you cannot hear it, you are asking your neighbor to make the volume less than your?

Absolute Threshold

Explanation:

Absolute threshold  is defined as the lowest tone level that a person can hear while being in no sound interrupting situation.It is the smallest sound that can be sensed by a person normally because it is detectable through ears of human .

According to the question, the person is asking to reduce the volume of television to less than absolute threshold i.e.-beyond which he wouldn't be able to detect the news sound normally. As the volume tone will be lower than lowest level of sound tone perceived by human.

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