Question about mirrors and distance...?

Question

say you are standing 10 feet away from a mirror

when you look at your reflection is that how you would look for real from 10 feet away or from 20 feet away?

Answer 1

A mirror shows you at half size.  Therefore, if you look in a one foot x one foot mirror, you will see two feet of yourself.  This does not change with the distance you stand from the mirror.

Answer 2

Assuming this is a plain mirror then it is a true representation of size. Your image in the mirror has no magnification (positive or negative). So the size is correct.However the image will be laterally inverted. That is, if you raise your left hand the image will raise it's right hand. As your body is not completely symmetrical then it will not be exactly as people see you.(for real).This one reason why photographs of ourselves can seem strange as we normally only see the mirror image. If you get two mirrors and reflect the first in the second you can re-invert the image.

Answer 3

Apart from being flipped horizontally, then I suppose so. You are 10 feet away from the reflective horizon, your reflection is 10 feet behind it.....total 20 feet.

Answer 4

  It would be from twenty feet away.

  You would also be seeing yourself hundreds of millions of a second in the past.

Answer 5

20 feet away! cause you are here, 10 feet away this side of mirror and your picture is 10 feet away from that side!!!

(you).......(10 feet)..........(mirror).........(10 feet).........(your image)

got it?!