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Astronomers are proud of their telescopes and often say they can "resolve a dime at so many miles." How many miles from a  102-cm-diameter \text { 102-cm-diameter } telescope mirror can you place a coin of diameter 3.0 cm and just resolve the coin using light of wavelength 389 nm?389 \mathrm {~nm} ? (1 mi = 1.609 km)


A) 19 mi
B) 9.7 mi
C) 40 mi
D) 190,000,000 mi

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