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document.write( "if a boat travels 8 miles upstream in the same time it takes it to travel 12 miles downstream, and the boat can go 15 miles per hour, <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The condition needs to be corrected: instead of \"can go 15 miles per hour\" must be\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "\"can go 15 miles per hour in still water.\"\r<BR>\n" );
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