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A Car Is Traveling Counterclockwise Along a Circular Bend in the Road

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A car is traveling counterclockwise along a circular bend in the road whose effective radius is 100 m100 \mathrm{~m} . At a certain instant of time, the car is traveling due north, has a speed of 10 m/s10 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s} , and is in the process of increasing that speed at a rate of 1 m/s21 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}^{2} . The direction of the car's acceleration at that instant is most nearly
A) North
B) Northeast
C) East
D) Northwest
E) West
F) Southwest
G) Zero

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