document.write( "Question 834886: Amanda can row 32 miles downstream in 8 hours but it takes her 6 hours to row 12 miles upstream. Find the rate she rows in still water and the rate of the current?
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28r%2Bc%29%2A8=32\" and \"%28r-c%29%2A6=12\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\"8r%2B8c=32\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"r%2Bc=4\" for downstream equation simplified.
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\n" ); document.write( "\"r-c=2\" for upstream simplified equation.
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\n" ); document.write( "These two equations in the shown simplifeed form are perfectly fit for using the Elimination Method. You finish this.
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