SOLUTION: Junior's boat will go 15 mph in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed of the current?

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Question 329132: Junior's boat will go 15 mph in still water. If he can go 12 miles downstream in the same amount of time as it takes to go 9 miles upstream, then what is the speed of the current?
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