SOLUTION: A motorboat takes 5 hours to travel 200 miles going upstream. The return trip takes 4 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of th
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Question 1196919: A motorboat takes 5 hours to travel 200 miles going upstream. The return trip takes 4 hours going downstream. What is the rate of the boat in still water and what is the rate of the current?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The effective upstream speed is 40 mph and the effective downstream speed is 50 mph. Same distance each direction ("return trip").
r boat speed no current
c speed of current
----------solving is not complicated.
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