SOLUTION: I need the equation for the following problem: My motor boat normally travels at 24 kilometers per hour in still water. One day I traveled 36 kilometers against a constant current

Question 1055523: I need the equation for the following problem: My motor boat normally travels at 24 kilometers per hour in still water. One day I traveled 36 kilometers against a constant current in a river. If I had traveled with the current, I would have traveled 48 km in the same time. How fast was the current?
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I need the equation for the following problem: My motor boat normally travels at 24 kilometers per hour in still water.
One day I traveled 36 kilometers against a constant current in a river. If I had traveled with the current,
I would have traveled 48 km in the same time. How fast was the current?
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Your equation is

 = .

The left side is the time to travel 36 kilometers against the constant current in a river.

The right side is the time to travel 48 kilometers with the constant current in a river.

"v" is the current speed.

There are similar fully solved similar problems on upstream and downstream round trips with detailed solutions in the lessons
    - Wind and Current problems
    - More problems on upstream and downstream round trips
    - Selected problems from the archive on the boat floating Upstream and Downstream

Read them attentively and learn how to solve this type of problems once and for all.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the section "Word problems", the topic "Travel and Distance problems".

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