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If the positive direction was defined at the outset as the direction opposite to the

direction in which the object happens to be moving just now, and the object is

slowing down, then the acceleration is positive because, algebraically, the object's

speed is increasing in the positive direction.

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Q: How can an object slowing down have an acceleration that's not negative?
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