Multiple Choice
The pupil of the human eye is approximately 0.8 cm in diameter when adapted to the dark. The ratio of the light-gathering power of a 1.6-m telescope to that of the human eye is ____.
A) 2
B) 4
C) 20
D) 400
E) 40,000
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