SOLUTION: a boat travels 16 miles upstream in 4 hours. Going downstream, it can travel 32 miles in the same amount of time. find the speed of the current and speed of the boat in still water

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Question 994997: a boat travels 16 miles upstream in 4 hours. Going downstream, it can travel 32 miles in the same amount of time. find the speed of the current and speed of the boat in still water
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a boat travels 16 miles upstream in 4 hours. Going downstream, it can travel 32 miles in the same amount of time. find the speed of the current and speed of the boat in still water
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Find the 2 groundspeeds up and downstream.
The boat's speed is the average of the 2.
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The current = difference between groundspeed and boat's speed.