SOLUTION: Two miles upstream from his starting point, a canoeist passed a log floating in a river's current. After paddling upstream for another hour, he paddled back and reached his starti
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Question 262729: Two miles upstream from his starting point, a canoeist passed a log floating in a river's current. After paddling upstream for another hour, he paddled back and reached his starting point just as the log arrived. Find the speed of the current. Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Two miles upstream from his starting point, a canoeist passed a log floating in a river's current.
After paddling upstream for another hour, he paddled back and reached his starting point just as the log arrived.
Find the speed of the current.
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The relationship of the canoe and the log is not affected by the current.
If the canoe paddled away from the log for 1 hr it would take 1 hr to return to it
Therefore we can say, the log will travel 2 mi in 2 hrs
2/2 = 1 mph is the current
