Estimate the refractive index of the glass

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A ray of light is traveling in a glass cube that is totally immersed in water. You find that if the ray is incident on the glass-water interface at an angle to the normal larger than 48.7 o no light is refracted into the water. What is the refractive index of the glass?

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