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Course: High school physics?>?Unit 1
Lesson 6: Motion with constant accelerationKinematic equations: numerical calculations
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Problem
A bumblebee is flying to the right when a breeze causes the bee to slow down with a constant leftward acceleration of magnitude . After , the bee is moving to the right with a speed of .
What was the velocity of the bumblebee right before the breeze?
Give the correct sign for your answer, using a coordinate system where rightward is positive.
Round the answer to two significant digits.