Question
Write the word AMBULANCE as it would appear when reflected in a plane mirror. Why is it sometimes written in this way (as its mirror image) on the front of an ambulance?
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Answer
Because while driving our car. if we see in our rear-view mirror that the hospital van is coming from behind, then we get the laterally inverted image of
and read its as AMBULANCE and give way for it to pass throught.Need a full question paper?
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