Please help me out with the length on this sound intensities problem

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Homework Statement



When sounded separately, two identical car horns produce sound intensities at your ear in the ratio 6:1. If the nearer car is 8m from you, how far from you is the more distant car? Assume uniform spherical wavefronts.


Homework Equations


Intensity=P/4x(3.14)"pi"x R^2
ratio fartest car=(ratio nearest car+ratio that i am)^1/2<<"squareroot"


The Attempt at a Solution


All I did was the surface area for the sphere, which was
4x3.14x8^2= 1607.7
Then i do not know what else to do because i need to find the length, I know the answer should be 19.6
 
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