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Question
Which characteristics of the sound helps you to identify your friend by his voice while sitting with others in a dark room?
Solution
Quality of sound is that characteristic which helps us identify a particular person. Sound produced by two persons may have the same pitch and loudness, but the quality of the two sounds will be different.
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