Physics
Grade-10
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Question

An object of size 12cm is placed in front of a convex mirror, it forms an image of size 6 cm. The magnification of the image is ___.

  1. 0.5
  2. 0.75
  3. -0.5
  4. -0.12

hintHint:

0.5

The correct answer is: 0.5


    M= (height of the image)/(height of the object)
    M=6/12= 0.5

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