SOLUTION: A tugboat can go 10mph in still water. However, traveling in a river, it travels 24 miles upstream and 24 miles back in a total time of 5 hours. What is the speed of the current of
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Question 601335: A tugboat can go 10mph in still water. However, traveling in a river, it travels 24 miles upstream and 24 miles back in a total time of 5 hours. What is the speed of the current of the river? Answer by flame8855(424) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! downstream means with current
so speed is v +c
upstream means against current
so speed is v-c
24/(v+c) +24/(v-c) = 5
solve the equation v= 10
so c =2 mph
