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Question 1169968: A boat made a trip 120 miles down the river. When traveling down stream the trip took four hours when it turned around and traveled the same distance upstream it took six hours. find the speed of the boat in Stillwater and the speed of the current.
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, josgarithmetic, Solver92311:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A boat made a trip 120 miles down the river. When traveling down stream the trip took four hours when it turned around and traveled the same distance upstream it took six hours. find the speed of the boat in Stillwater and the speed of the current.
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Find the 2 speeds, downstream and upstream.
The boat's speed is the average of the 2.
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The current is the difference between the boat's speed and the speed up or down.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
boat speed if not in current, r
speed of current, c
----------very simple to use Elimination Method on this.
Answer by Solver92311(821) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It depends on whether you mean Stillwater, Oklahoma, or Stillwater Minnesota. There is no place to float a boat in Stillwater, OK, so the speed of the boat there would be zero. Stillwater, MN has a river so there is a current that makes you go faster when you are going downstream and slower when you go upstream, and then there is a speed through the water when there is no current at all which would be referred to as the "speed in still water". But since there is much less than 120 miles of riverfront in Stillwater, MN, and there is no way to tell whether the speeds are different when you are in Stillwater and when you are not, I can't answer the question you asked. Repost your question paying attention to what you are writing and making sure you are writing what you intend to say.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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