A man sits in an optician's chair, looking into a plane mirror which is 2 m away from him and views the image of a chart which faces the mirror and is 50 cm behind his head. How far away from his eyes does the chart appear to be?

Man and the mirror distance= 2 cm

Man and the chart distance = 50 cm = 0.5 m


Chart and mirror distance = 0.5 m + 2 m = 2.5 m


Mirror and the image of the chart distance = 2.5 m


Now, man and the image of chart distance


= man and the mirror distance + mirror and the image of the chart distance


= 2 m + 2.5 m


= 4.5 m


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