20/40 vision means that the test subject sees at 20 feet what a normal person sees at 40 feet. Another way of saying this is that a person with 20/40 vision has vision that is only half as good as normal-or, objects must be at half the normal distance for him to see them.
Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. The term of the compromise 1850 was a group of five bills, passed September 1850, which defuse a four year confrontion between slave states of the south & free states of the north.nswered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. The term of the compromise 1850 was a group of five bills, passed September 1850, which defuse a four year confrontion between slave states of the south & free states of the north.
Some of the major points of the compromise of 1850 were that slave  trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, California  would be admitted as a free state, and â¦ Texas would give up the land  it was claiming they owned.he compromise of 1850 was made up of 5 laws: 1. California is a free state; slavery is illegal 2.New Mexico and Utah were each allowed to use popular sovereignty to decid â¦ e the issue of slavery.