document.write( "Question 1120738: Hi, I need some help with working out this motion problem, thanks!\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"Gertrude rows her boat 24 miles downstream in 4 hours. In order to make the return trip upstream in the same amount of time, the rate of the boat in still water was doubled. Find the rate of the current and the rate that Gertrude was rowing downstream.\"
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document.write( "                SPEED        TIME    DISTANCE\r\n" );
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document.write( "downstream        r+c          4       24\r\n" );
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document.write( "upstream         2r-c          4       24\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"3r=12\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight%28r=4%29\"-------boat, downstream speed
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\n" ); document.write( "\"highlight%28c=2%29\"-------current
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