Independent sound energies add. Thus the dumper’s energy-proportional intensity is 10^(95/10)−10^(90/10). Its level is 10log₁₀ of that difference, 93.35 dB(A). Directly subtracting 5 dB would not remove the shovel’s energy contribution.
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