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A person suffers from hypermetropia (long sight). Use of a spectacle lens of power +3.0 D+3.0\text{ D}+3.0 D allows the person to just see clearly an object placed 20 cm20\text{ cm}20 cm away from the eye.

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Explain why the unaided defective eye cannot form a clearly focused image of the object placed 20 cm20\text{ cm}20 cm from the eye.

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An object is placed 20 cm20\text{ cm}20 cm from the spectacle lens. Calculate the distance of the image formed from the spectacle lens. Give your answer to a suitable number of significant figures.

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State the name for the position where the image is formed by the spectacle lens.

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