A telecommunications engineer is modeling the signal strength, SSS microvolts, of a transmitter at a distance xxx km. A plot of log10S\log_{10} Slog10S against xxx produces a straight line lll.
The line lll passes through the points (0,3.42)(0, 3.42)(0,3.42) and (12,1.02)(12, 1.02)(12,1.02).
Write down an equation for lll.
Hence, or otherwise, express SSS in the form kbxkb^xkbx, giving the values of the constants kkk and bbb to 3 significant figures.
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