SOLUTION: It takes a boat 4 hours to travel 24 miles down a river and 6 hours to return upstream to its starting point. What is the rate of the current in the river?
Algebra.Com
Question 162065: It takes a boat 4 hours to travel 24 miles down a river and 6 hours to return upstream to its starting point. What is the rate of the current in the river?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
24/4=6 mph downstream.
24/6=4 mph upstream.
(6-4)/2=2/2=1 is the speed of the current.
RELATED QUESTIONS
it takes a botat 2 hours to travel 20 miles down a river and 3 hours to return upstream... (answered by stanbon)
It takes a boat on the river 4 hours to travel 24 miles downstream and 6 hours to travel... (answered by Cromlix)
A boat running at its' top speed takes 3.0 hours to travel 12 km down a river. It then... (answered by Alan3354)
#1:
The speed of a stream is 6mph
If a boat travels 54 miles downstream in the same... (answered by ewatrrr)
It takes a boat 4 hours to travel 56 miles down a river, and 3 hours longer to make the... (answered by rmromero)
A boat takes 8 hours to travel 80 miles upstream and 5 hours to return to its starting... (answered by checkley71)
A boat takes 8 hours to travel 80 miles upstream and 5 hours to return to its starting... (answered by lwsshak3)
A boat on a river travels 24 miles downstream in only 3 hours. It takes the same boat 5... (answered by mananth)
A boat travels 80 miles upstream in a river with a current of 6 miles per hour; then it... (answered by Jk22,mananth)