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The nickel's image has four times the diameter of the nickel when the lens is 2.70 cm from the nickel. Determine the focal length of the lens?

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This solution provides step-by-step solutions for using distance, magnification, to find image distance and focal length.

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Step 1. The object distance, from the nickel to the lens, is p= 2.70 cm

Step 2. Since the image is four times the size as ...

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