SOLUTION: A boat travels upstream for 12 miles in 3 hours and returns in 2 hours traveling downstream in a river. What is the rate of the boat in still water and the rate of the current?

Question 1097319: A boat travels upstream for 12 miles in 3 hours and returns in 2 hours traveling downstream in a river. What is the rate of the boat in still water and the rate of the current?
The rate of the boat in still water is __________ miles per hour.
The rate of the current is ____________ miles per hour.

Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
boat is moving upstream at 4 mph and downstream at 6 mph.
x=speed of boat
c=current
x+c=6
x-c=4
2x=10
x=5 mph speed of boat
c=1 mph speed of current
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