Write the word AMBULANCE as it would appear when reflected in a plane mirror. Why is it sometimes written in this way (as its mirror image) on the front of an ambulance?
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Because while driving our car. if we see in our rear-view mirror that the hospital van is coming from behind, then we get the laterally inverted image ofand read its as AMBULANCE and give way for it to pass throught.
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