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A plane mirror reflects a pencil of ligh...

A plane mirror reflects a pencil of light to form a real image. Then the pencil of light incident on the mirror is

A

Parallel

B

Convergent

C

Divergent

D

None of these

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The correct Answer is:
B
Image is real so object will be virtual. Hence incident ray will be convergent.
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