MERRYLAND INTERNATIOINAL SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
CALCULATING MAGNIFICATION
Name: …………………………………….…………... Grade 7 Sec: ………… Date: ………………….
1. A student draws a red blood cell. The drawing is 20mm in diameter.
This red blood cell is actually 0.008mm in diameter.
What is the magnification of the cell shown in the drawing?
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M= Image / Actual size I = 20mm
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= 20/ 0.008 = x2500 A= 0.008mm
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2. The diagram shows a high-power drawing of a plant cell. The distance between X and Y on the diagram
below is 80mm. The actual length of the cell between X and Y was 160µm.
What is the magnification of the cell?
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Magnification = Image / Actual size I= 80mm= 80000µm
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= 80000/160 A= 160µm
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= x 500
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3. A student was told that a drawing of a bacterial cell had been magnified 30 000 times. The length of
the drawing was 45 mm. What was the actual length of the bacterium?
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Actual size = Image / magnification M= 30000 x
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= 45000 / 30000 I= 45mm=45000µm
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= 1.5µm
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4. The length of a mitochondrion in a photomicrograph is 15 mm. The actual length of the mitochondrion
is 3 µm. What is the magnification of the photomicrograph?
M= Image / Actual size I= 15mm=15000µm
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= 15000 / 3 A=3µm
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= x 5000
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5. The diagram shows a pollen grain of a rice plant. The size of the image is 40 mm.
The actual length of the pollen grain is 40 µm. By how many times has the diagram been magnified?
M= Image / Actual size I= 40mm = 40000µm
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= 40000/40 A =40µm
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= x 1000
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6. The diagram shows an image of a chloroplast.
The image is 5 cm long. The actual length of the chloroplast is 5 µm.
What is the magnification of the image?
I= 5cm = 50000 µm
M= Image / Actual size
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A= 5µm
= 50000 / 5
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= x 10000
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7. A student draws a diagram of a mitochondrion.
The diagram has a magnification of ×20000. The diagram is 5cm long.
What is the actual size of the mitochondrion?
Actual size = Image / magnification I= 5cm= 50000µm
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= 50000 / 20000 M= x 20000
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= 2.5µm
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8. The diameter of an arteriole is 1.5 mm, how many μm is it?
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Diameter= 1.5mm = 1500µm
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9. A mitochondrion is 2 μm long, how many nm is it?
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Length = 2µm = 2000nm
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10. A chloroplast is 10 500 nm, what size is it in μm?
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10500 / 1000 = 10.5µm
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Task
1. If the width of a mitochondrion is 0.5 μm, what is the width in nm? 500nm
2. A student measured the maximum width of an open stomata and found it to be3.5 μm.
What was the width in mm? 0.0035mm
3. A student drew a picture of a palisade cell from a leaf. The drawing measured 100 mm and the
real size of the cell was 0.2 mm. Use the formula to calculate the magnification of the drawing. x500
4. A student saw a diagram of an artery in a text book that was magnified 15 times. The image size in
the book was 75 mm. Calculate the actual size of the real artery. 5mm
5. A student made a drawing of a red blood cell from the microscope. The cell was 7.5 μm in
diameter and the drawing was 60 mm in diameter. Calculate the magnification the student had
used for the drawing. x 8000
6. This is a drawing of a phagocyte.
Use the scale bar to calculate the magnification of the image.
A= 2 µm
