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Question

Naas notes the speedometer readings of his friend’s car the moment he started applying brakes until the car stopped. Later, he calculated the acceleration of the car and found it out to be ___.

  1. Negative
  2. Positive
  3. Zero
  4. None of the above

hintHint:

Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.

The correct answer is: Negative


    The direction of the acceleration is opposite to the direction of velocity as the speed of car is slowing down, then the acceleration will be negative.

    Negative acceleration is also known as deceleration.

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