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couldn't help lol ing at itI'm horrible at paint but I hope you get the idea:
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The red lines represent the NORMAL (90 deg.) to the Mirror. First of all draw the normal at the point where the incident ray strikes the mirror. Then measure the angle of incidence and draw the reflected line. Remember angle of incidence = angle of reflection. Do the same for the second light ray as well. The coloured angles represent equal angles.
The black dotted lines show the method for tracing back the image of P. Just trace back the reflected rays using dotted lines BEHIND the mirror and the intersection of the dotted lines is the image of P represent by P'.
To verify the image of P, you can use the distance method represented by the pink line. The distance of P from mirror = The distance of P' from mirror. This holds true for all plane mirrors.
P.S. The drawing is not accurate nor neat.