A student is studying a transmission electron micrograph of a plant cell and measures a prominent chloroplast.
The measured image length of the chloroplast is 6.4 cm. The actual (real) length of the chloroplast is 8 μm8\ \mu\text{m}8 μm.
Calculate the magnification used to view this chloroplast. Show your working.
Use the equation:
magnification=size of imagesize of real object \text{magnification} = \frac{\text{size of image}}{\text{size of real object}} magnification=size of real objectsize of image