document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1048584>Question 1048584</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> a boat travels upstream for 156 miles in 3 hours and returns in 2 hours traveling downstream in a local stream of water. What is the rate of the boat in still water and the rate of the current? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Sometimes creating a data table helps.  Notice that upstream speed is smaller than downstream speed.  Both r and c are positive numbers.  You can solve the system  (expecting that just setting up the system was the trouble, and not handling the algebra). </SPAN>\n" );
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