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Select the option that best completes the sentence. A red car is parked outside on a sunny day. The car appears red to us because: sunlight consists of mostly red light, which reflects off the car into our eyesthe car's paint has chemicals in it that emit red lightwhite light from the Sun is converted to red light when it reflects off the carother colours in the white sunlight are absorbed by the car, and only red is reflectedI'm not sure

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Select the option that best completes the sentence. A red car is parked outside on a sunny day. The car appears red to us because: sunlight consists of mostly red light, which reflects off the car into our eyesthe car's paint has chemicals in it that emit red lightwhite light from the Sun is converted to red light when it reflects off the carother colours in the white sunlight are absorbed by the car, and only red is reflectedI'm not sure

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The correct answer is: other colours in the white sunlight are absorbed by the car, and only red is reflected.

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