SOLUTION: A family travel 18 miles and returns. It takes 8 hours to make the round trip. their rate in still water is twice the rate of the current. Find the rate of the current.

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Hi

average speed =  = 4.5mph

r = 2c where c is the rate of the current

| |Multiplying thru by 3c so as all denominators = 1

    18 + 54 = 24c

         72/24 = c = 3mph