SOLUTION: Traveling downstream ascertain boat 120 kilometers an hour traveling upstream it went only two kilometers an hour find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the cur

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Question 985404: Traveling downstream ascertain boat 120 kilometers an hour traveling upstream it went only two kilometers an hour find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current
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Traveling downstream ascertain boat 120 kilometers an hour traveling upstream it went only two kilometers an hour find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current
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The boat's speed is the average of downstream and upstream.
The current is the difference between boatspeed and land speed.

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