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A beam of light consisting of red, and blue colours is incident on a right-angled prism ABC. The refractive indices of the material of the prism for the red and blue wavelength are 1.39 and 1.47 respectively. The colour/colours transmitted through the face AC of the prism will be

A

red only

B

red and blue

C

blue only

D

none

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