when does a plane mirror form an inverted image?

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The characteristics of plane mirror are: the image formed by plane mirror are always virtual in nature, upright or erect and the object’s distance is same as that of image’s distance.

Thus, a plane mirror never produce an inverted image rather lateral inversion (left-right reversal) it produces but not top-bottom reversal.

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Statement 1: For a person facing North, his image in a plane mirror kept just in front of him would face South.

Staement 2: Plane mirror forms inverted image.

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