SOLUTION: You can travel by boat 8 miles downstream in the same amount of time it takes you to travel 4 miles upstream. What is the speed of the current?
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Question 727285: You can travel by boat 8 miles downstream in the same amount of time it takes you to travel 4 miles upstream. What is the speed of the current?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the speed of the current
The time, is the same for both trips
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The speed going downstream minus the speed of the current
equals the speed going upstream plus the speed of the current
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