Mal11 Mirror image and object distances
A rose is placed 30 cm in front of a mirror. Your eye is at the level of the rose and 5.0 cm away parallel to the mirror.
How far from your eye is the image of the rose and is it real or virtual?
Draw the diagram.

The object and image distances are equal. The image is behind the mirror and the distance from your eye is
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The image is virtual.
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