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Ow does the light-collecting area of an 8-meter telescope compare to that of a 2-meter telescope?

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The area will be the square of the quotient of the amounts for each telescope. Comparing the two microscopes, the 8-meter model is 4 times larger than the 2-meter model. Squaring this value gives a ratio of 16 times the amount of visual area for the larger telescope.
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