SOLUTION: A boat can travel 36mph in still water. If it travels 114miles with the current and in the same length of time travels 102 against the current, what is the speed of the current?

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Question 624751: A boat can travel 36mph in still water. If it travels 114miles with the current and in the same length of time travels 102 against the current, what is the speed of the current?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 
Hi,
A boat can travel 36mph in still water.
If it travels 114miles with the current and in the same length of time travels 102 against the current
what is the speed of the current? Note: D/r = t
|| Cross Multiply to solve for c in mph
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