SOLUTION: Going against the current, a boat takes 6 hours to make a 120-mile trip. When the boat travels with the current on the return trip, it takes 5 hours. What is the rate of the boa

Question 1062082: Going against the current, a boat takes 6 hours to make a 120-mile trip. When the boat travels with the current on the return trip, it takes 5 hours.
What is the rate of the boat in still water?
A.) 2 mph
B.) 20 mph
C.) 22 mph
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The rate of the boat in still water is 22 mph.

The rate of the current is 2 mph.

It is a typical and standard Upstream and Downstream trip word problem.

You can find similar fully solved problems on upstream and downstream trips with detailed solutions in the lesson
    - More problems on upstream and downstream round trips
in this site.

Read them attentively and learn how to solve this type of problems once and for all.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lesson is the part of this textbook under the section "Word problems", the topic "Travel and Distance problems".

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