A fish in a flat-sided aquarium sees a can of fish food on the counter. to the fish's eye, the can looks to be 37 cm outside the aquarium.

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Quentin Duffy

Physics

23 October, 09:03

A fish in a flat-sided aquarium sees a can of fish food on the counter. to the fish's eye, the can looks to be 37 cm outside the aquarium.

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Haley Moran · Answer 1

Because the aquarium is flat-sided, there is no additional distance between the fish and the can. So, the distance between the can and the aquarium is the distance between fish’s eye and the can minus the distance between the fish eye and the aquarium.