As a car drives with its tires rolling freely without any slippage, the type of friction acting between the tires and the road is
A) static friction.
B) kinetic friction.
C) a combination of static and kinetic friction.
D) neither static nor kinetic friction, but some other type of friction.
E) It is impossible to tell what type of friction acts in this situation.

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Static friction acts between the tires and the road when the tires roll without slipping, as it prevents relative motion between the contact surfaces.

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