SOLUTION: Junior's boat will go 15 miles per hour in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed fo th
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Question 197838: Junior's boat will go 15 miles per hour in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed fo the current?
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Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Going downstream, the speed of the current adds to the speed of the boat in still water, so if r represents the unknown speed of the current, the speed downstream is 
. Likewise, going upstream, the speed of the current subtracts from the speed in still water, so: 
Using 
the downstream trip is described by:
And the upstream trip:
Since the problem says both trips take the same amount of time, set the two fractions equal to each other and solve the proportion by cross-multiplying.
John
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