Multiple Choice
How many times more light will be collected by the optics of one side of a pair of binoculars (7 × 50-magnification of 7 and an objective lens aperture diameter of 50 mm) than by an average human eye, with a typical aperture diameter of 5 mm?
A) 100 times
B) 10 times
C) 2500 times
D) 7/5, or 1.4 times
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