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A man can read the number of a distant bus clearly but he finds difficulty in reading a book.
(a) From which defect of the eye is he suffering ?
(b) What type of spectacle lens should he use to correct the defect ?

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(a) Hypermetropia (Long-sightedness) (b) Convex lens
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