A small hole in the window of a closed room forms an inverted image of outside building on the opposite wall of the room. This happens because (a) the rays of light suffer lateral inversion on entering the hole (b) of the rectilinear propagation of light (c) the hole acts as a convex lens (d) the hole acts as a prism

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