A monochromatic light is incident on a Young's double slit setup that has a slit separation of 30.0 mm. The resultant bright fringe separation is 2.15 cm on a screen 1.20 m from the double slit. What is the separation between the third-order bright fringe and the zeroth-order bright fringe?

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A monochromatic light is incident on a Young's double slit setup that has a slit separation of 30.0 mm. The resultant bright fringe separation is 2.15 cm on a screen 1.20 m from the double slit. What is the separation between the third-order bright fringe and the zeroth-order bright fringe?