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Microscope used by Robert Hooke had a magnification of

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1020x
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1442x
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816x
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1664x
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Solution

The correct option is D 1442x
Some of Leeuwenhoek's simple microscopes could magnify objects more than 250 times, but Hooke's compound microscopes only magnified somewhere between 20 and 50 times.
Hence the correct answer is (B)

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