document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1065804>Question 1065804</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> As a rower passes under a bridge, a bottle of whiskey falls into the water.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Since it's half-full, it floats.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The rower doesn't hear it, and continues downstream.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "After 20 minutes, he gets thirsty and looks for the bottle.  <BR>\n" );
document.write( "Having sobered some, he figures out that it fell into the water.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "He turns around and rows upstream.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "He finds the bottle 1 mile from the bridge.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Find the speed of the current. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The boat and the bottle are in the same medium, the river, so they would stay together if not for the man rowing.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Instead of a bridge, envision this happening in open water near a marker, such as a buoy.  The bottle stays near the marker.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The man rows 20 minutes away, so it takes him 20 minutes to row back, 40 minutes total.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The bottle in the river moves 1 mile in 40 minutes --> 1.5 mi/hr.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Choosing a frame of reference and remembering that \"all motion is relative\" makes it a simple problem. </SPAN>\n" );
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