$A$ lens of power $3.5 \, D$ is placed in contact with a lens of power $-2.5 \, D$. The combination behaves as:

An eye specialist prescribes spectacles having a combination of a convex lens of focal length $40\, cm$ in contact with a concave lens of focal length $25\, cm$. The power of this lens combination in diopters is

Two lenses have focal lengths of $+10 \ cm$ and $-15 \ cm$. When they are placed in contact,the combination acts as a convex lens. If the chromatic aberration is zero,what is the ratio of their dispersive powers?

Three lenses of focal lengths $+10 \ cm, -10 \ cm$ and $+30 \ cm$ are placed at distances of $30 \ cm, 35 \ cm$ and $45 \ cm$ respectively from an object. The distance between the object and the final image formed is: (in $cm$)

$(a)$ Determine the 'effective focal length' of the combination of two lenses,a convex lens of focal length $30 \; cm$ and a concave lens of focal length $20 \; cm$,if they are placed $8.0 \; cm$ apart with their principal axes coincident. Does the answer depend on which side of the combination a beam of parallel light is incident? Is the notion of effective focal length of this system useful at all?
$(b)$ An object $1.5 \; cm$ in size is placed on the side of the convex lens in the arrangement $(a)$ above. The distance between the object and the convex lens is $40 \; cm$. Determine the magnification produced by the two-lens system,and the size of the image.

Two lenses of power $6D$ and $-2D$ are combined to form a single lens. The focal length of this lens will be (in $m$)