To determine the acceleration of the cyclist based on the description of the graph, we can analyze the information provided:
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The graph starts at +1.0 on the y-axis and continues to go up in a straight line: This indicates that the velocity (y-axis) is increasing linearly with respect to time (x-axis).
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A straight line on a velocity-time graph implies that the velocity is changing at a constant rate.
From these observations, we can conclude that the acceleration must be:
C. constant but non-zero
This is because the cyclist is accelerating at a steady rate, indicated by the linear increase in velocity over time.