On looking in a plane mirror, you are touching your left ear with your right hand. What would you find in your image?

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Solution

The phenomenon of the reversal of mirror image where the left side of the object appears on the right side behind the mirror and vice versa is called lateral inversion.
It is the phenomenon of the interchange of the left side to the right side in the image of the object when reflected by a plane mirror.
So, in front of the mirror if we touch our left ear with our right hand, in the image it will look like we are touching our right ear with our left hand.

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