Question: You are vacationing in a Wonderland populated by friendly elves and a cannibalistic Cyclops that devours physics students. The elves and the Cyclops look precisely

You are vacationing in a Wonderland populated by friendly elves and a cannibalistic Cyclops that devours physics students. The elves and the Cyclops look precisely alike (everyone wears loose jeans and sweatshirts) except that each elf has two eyes, about 10.0 cm apart, and the Cyclops—you guessed it—has only one eye of about the same size as an elf’s. The elves and the Cyclops are constantly at war with each other, so they rarely sleep and all have red eyes, predominantly reflecting light with a wavelength of 660 nm. From what maximum distance can you distinguish between a friendly elf and the predatory Cyclops? The air in Wonderland is always clear. Dilated with fear, your pupils have a diameter of 7.00 mm.

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