Critical Angle of Glass Lab: Is My Graph Wrong?

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I'm doing a lab, and I plotted a graph for the refractive index I got about 38.3 degrees
and the material I'm working with is a glass block from reading two textbooks I came to the conclusion my graph might be wrong =/, because the critical angle for glass in air is 42 degrees. So is my graph wrong since I'm like 4 degrees off?
 
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Are the experimetal points lying on a straight line?
 
Yeah I drew a line of best fit.