As you increase the speed of your car, the engine has to operate at higher and higher speeds in order to move the car along. if the engine was left in a low gear, the speed could become so excessive that it might damage the engine. which of these will prevent this from occurring?

Shifting into a higher gear to decrease the speed of the engine

Explanation:

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the answer to your question would be something called hertz. the unit of measurement called a hertz, which is one cycle per second, is used to measure clock speed. within one cycle, your computer processes, refreshes, or updates itself to the changes that it is going through. in the case of computer clock speed, one hertz equals one tick per second. the clock speed of computers is usually measured in megahertz (mhz) or gigahertz (ghz)