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A sign painted on a store window is reversed when viewed
from inside the store. If a person inside the store views
the reversed sign in a plane mirror, does the sign appear
as it would when viewed from outside the store? (Try it by
writing some letters on a transparent sheet of paper and then
holding the back side of the paper up to a mirror.) Explain.
SOLUTION: Since mirrors appear to reverse left and right,
and since looking from behind the sign reverses left and
right, the mirror will re-reverse the sign so you can see
it just as people from outside see it.
Scott Lanning
3/23/1998