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Question
While performing the experiment to trace the path of a ray of light passing through a glass prism, four students marked the incident ray and the emergent ray in their diagrams in the manner shown below. 
(A) I
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Solution
(C)
When light goes from rarer medium to denser medium; it bends towards the normal and vice-versa. This condition is fulfilled in figure (III).
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