SOLUTION: 1. A motorboat went 70 miles in 4 hours when traveling at full speed upstream on a river whose current flows at the rate of 6 miles per hour. How fast can the boat travel in still
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Question 930571: 1. A motorboat went 70 miles in 4 hours when traveling at full speed upstream on a river whose current flows at the rate of 6 miles per hour. How fast can the boat travel in still water?
2.A messenger traveling 65 miles per hour pursues a truck which has a start of 2 hours and overtacks it in 3 hours. Find the trucks’ speed?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
r - 6mph = 17.6 mph
r = 23.6mph
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65•3hr = r(5hr)
65•3/5 = r = 39mph
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