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As a health and safety officer, you are reviewing a site assessment for a new office building near a busy intersection. The report indicates that the sound intensity (II) of the heavy city traffic is 103{}10^{-3} watts per square inch. When applying the standard decibel formula D=10log(I1012)D = 10 \log\left(\frac{I}{10^{-12}}\right) as demonstrated in the lesson, the calculated noise level is ____ dB.

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