If a mirror's surface transparent, translucent, or opaque? how do you know?

Opaque and translucent have the ability to make a shadow transparent will not

If it's a one sided mirror it would be Opaque. Opaque means that zero shreds of light pass through it, so if you hold up a regular mirror because the light shown on it only bounces back instead of going directly through making a hand held, or kitchen, common mirror in general opaque.

The scientific method is a series of steps followed by scientific investigators to answer specific questions about the natural world. it involves making observations, formulating a hypothesis, and conducting scientific experiments.the steps of the scientific method are •observation-the first step of the scientific method involves making an observation about something that interests you•question-once you've made your observation, you must formulate a question about what you have observed. •hypothesis-once you've made your observation, you must formulate a question about what you have observed. •experiment-once you've developed a hypothesis, you must design and conduct an experiment that will test it.•results-the results are where you report what happened in the experiment. •conclusion-the final step of the scientific method is developing a conclusion.i hope that this you : )