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Problem 6P

You stand 1.50 m m front of a wall and gaze downward at a small vertical mirror mounted on it. In this mirror you can see the reflection of your shoes. If your eyes are 1.85 m above your feet, through what angle should the mirror be tilted for you to see your eyes reflected in the mirror? (The location of the mirror remains the same, only its angle to the vertical is changed.)

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QUESTION:

Problem 6P

You stand 1.50 m m front of a wall and gaze downward at a small vertical mirror mounted on it. In this mirror you can see the reflection of your shoes. If your eyes are 1.85 m above your feet, through what angle should the mirror be tilted for you to see your eyes reflected in the mirror? (The location of the mirror remains the same, only its angle to the vertical is changed.)

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Here we need to find the angle at which the mirror should be tilted so that we can see the eyes reflected in the mirror.

Given data,

Distance between the mirror and the wall,

The vertical height of the eyes,

To find,

Angle,

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