A light ray traveling from glass into air strikes the glass-air surface at an angle 50 degrees to the normal. If the critical angle for the glass-air combination is 42 degrees, the percentage of light reflected from the surface is w) 6 x) 25 y) 38 z) 100

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ANSWER: Z -- 100

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