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A person requires a corrective lens of focal length -50 cm for distant vision and +20 cm for near vision. What is the nature of the primary defects this person suffers from, and what is the required power for the near vision correction?

Asked in OSSSC Forester, Forest Guard & Excise Constable · 2026
Human Eye and Its Defects · Physics
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Myopia is corrected with a concave lens; hypermetropia uses a convex lens.

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Option B — Myopia and Presbyopia, +5.0 D

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