Negative value of displacement

[Anna55]

A car traveling rightward slams on the breaks and skids to a stop (with locked wheels). Find the distance required to stop it. (I have taken away some parts of the question.)

The answer became -33.6 m. Why is the value negative? Thank you in advance!

 

[xts]

Because it is a school exercise rather than real (engineering, forensic, scientific) life, and your teacher (author of the exercise) chose such direction for "X-axis" used to analyse the problem.

In reality no one would give you a negative number as an answer. Probably no one would also give so precise number, rather that "car stops in 100 feet" "30m", or maybe even "33m"

 

[Integral]

You should be posting this in the homework help forums. Also you need to post the correct and complete problem.

It is clear you have made a mistake but there is no way to help you due to insufficient information.

Locked: Please post a a complete question with your work in the homework help forums.