Question

Rich and Sandra are doing a standard biology lab, where the letter 'e' is cut out of a newspaper and placed under a light microscope as a wet-mount. When placed under the microscope, the letter 'e' will appear
A) upside down and backwards
B) backwards and right side up
C) just as it appears in print
D) upside down and right side up

Answer 1

The answer is (a.) upside down and backward.
A microscope uses a convex lens that why the letter 'e' appears upside down and backward. These type of lens are used in almost every microscopes such as complex and compound microscopes. Images place under a microscope always appear in reversed and inverted.

Answer 2

A upside down and backwards

Upside down and backwards. The lens of the microscope distorts the image upside down and backwards.