You are driving 65.0 miles/hour and you see a police car, so you slow down to 42.5 miles/hour. It takes you 3 seconds to do this. What is your deceleration?

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You are driving 65.0 miles/hour and you see a police car, so you slow down to 42.5 miles/hour. It takes you 3 seconds to do this. What is your deceleration? 
(I asked this one before, but someone plugged in -22.5 miles/hr x 2.237 m/s / 1 mile an hour which I didn't understand) 

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Step 1: Determine the given variables

Initial velocity, u = 65.0 miles/hour = 29.057 m/s

Final velocity, v = 42.5 miles/hr = 18.99 m/s

Time taken, t = 3 s

Deceleration, a = ? 


We have simply converted miles/hour to m/s.

1 mile/hour = 0.447 m/s


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