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Deceleration ALWAYS means slowing down while negative acceleration does not always have to be slowing down true false
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Deceleration ALWAYS means slowing down while negative acceleration does not always have to be slowing down

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A little confused by the wording of the problem, but it is true that an object can have a negative acceleration and be speeding up in the negative direction… so I’d go with True
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