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A car traveling at 33 m/s starts to decelerate steadily. It comes to a complete stop in 6 seconds. What is its acceleration

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Here, deceleration = Velocity / Time
We have: V = 33 m/s
t = 6 s

Substitute their values,
d = 33/6
d = 5.5

So, acceleration would be -5.5 m/s²

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