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Prescribing Eyeglasses - Hyperopia Due this Friday, Mar 30 at 11:59 pm (EDT) Suppose you have hyperopia (you are farsighted). You can clearly focus on very distant objects, but any object which is closer than 43.7 cm from your eyes will appear blurry unless you use glasses. The purpose of glasses would be to make objects that are close to you appear to be at your near point. What would be the refractive power (in diopters - do not enter units) for your prescription if you want to be able to clearly read by holding the paper 21.30 cm from your eyes? 13.80 Submit Answer Incorrect. Tries 4/10 Previous Tries If your glasses make close objects appear farther away, it will make objects that are farther appear to be even more distant. If the object gets too far away, the image will become real and be located such that you can no longer focus on the image. What is the farthest distance that an object can be and still be able to see it clearly with your reading glasses on? Submit Answer Tries 0/10

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