A student has a compound microscope equipped with 10X ocular lenses and 4X, 10X, 40X and 100X objective lenses. The student has a slide with cells that are -50 microns (1 micron = 10 mm) in diameter, and wants to view a magnified image of a cell so that the cell appears to be 20 mm in diameter. Which objective lens should the student use? 10X

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a. 40x b.10x C. None D. 4x
A student has a compound microscope equipped with 10X ocular lenses
and 4X, 10X, 40X and 100X objective lenses. The student has a slide with
cells that are -50 microns (1 micron = 10 mm) in diameter, and wants to
view a magnified image of a cell so that the cell appears to be 20 mm in
diameter. Which objective lens should the student use?
40X
10X
Transcribed Image Text:A student has a compound microscope equipped with 10X ocular lenses and 4X, 10X, 40X and 100X objective lenses. The student has a slide with cells that are -50 microns (1 micron = 10 mm) in diameter, and wants to view a magnified image of a cell so that the cell appears to be 20 mm in diameter. Which objective lens should the student use? 40X 10X
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A compound microscope is used by microbiologists to magnify microscopic samples. It uses a combination of lenses to first form a real image of the object and then form a magnified virtual image of the object. 

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