document.write( "Question 395750: Traveling upstream against the current, it took a motorboat 2 hours to make a 60 mile trip. The return trip traveling downstream with the current took 1 hour. Find the rate of current. \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let x and c represent rate of boat and current respectively
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document.write( "Question states*** D = r*t OR r = D/t
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document.write( " x + c = 60mi/1hr
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document.write( " x - c =  60mi/2hr\r
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document.write( " x + c =  60mph
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document.write( " x - c =  30mph
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document.write( " 2x = 90mph
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document.write( "  x = 45mph, speed of the boat
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document.write( "  45mph + c = 60mph
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document.write( "          c = 15mph, the rate of the current  \n" );
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