Question

After testing the eyes of a child, the optician has prescribed the following lenses for his spectacles:
Left eye : + 2.00 D
Right eye : + 2.25 D
The child is suffering from the defect of vision called:
(a) short-sightedness
(b) long-sightedness
(c) cataract
(d) presbyopia

Answer 1

 long-sightedness

The optician has prescribed convex lenses for the child's spectacles, because a convex lens is used to increase the converging power of the eye lens. This shows that the child is suffering from the defect of vision called long-sightedness.