Free electrons are flowing from right to left in a conductor. What is the direction of conventional current in that conductor?

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Solution

Electric current is the flow of electrons.
Electrons are negatively charged particles.
Electrons always flows from negative to positive.
Current always flows opposite to the direction of flow of electrons, that is from positive to negative.
So here if the electrons are flowing from right to left, the direction of conventional current is from left to right.

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