ou are going on an out of town, and you are driving your car at 25m/s when you need to quickly reduce the car's speed to 12m/s to round a curve in a highway going to Camari City. If the deceleration has a magnitude of 8m/s^2, how far does your car travel while reducing the speed? And what is the time needed to round the cu

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You are going on an out of town, and you are driving your car at 25m/s when you need to quickly reduce the car's speed to 12m/s to round a curve in a highway going to Camari City. If the deceleration has a magnitude of 8m/s^2, how far does your car travel while reducing the speed? And what is the time needed to round the curve?

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