Question 1157497: An airplane lands on a short dirt runway near the village of Prainha. According to the passenger's map, a sunken treasure is 27 miles downriver from Prainha, on the opposite side of a 7 mile wide stretch of the Amazon River. The passenger finds a local fisherman who agrees to take him across to a dock that is only a few miles from the passenger's destination. The boat travels at a constant speed of 5 miles per hour. After landing at the dock, the passenger hikes alongside the river at a constant rate of 3 miles per hour. The trip from Prainha to the passenger's destination took a total of 6 hours. How far from the dock did the passenger have to hike to arrive at the location of the sunken treasure?
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
A good tradition (starting from "The treasure island" by Robert Louis Stevenson) is to attach a map.
I think that without the map, this problem can not be solved --- without it, there are toooooo many uncertainties in the text.
// Also, having a map would motivate other readers (including the tutors, too) to solve the problem and to get the sunken treasure.
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