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A man takes 3 hours 45 minutes to row a boat 15 km downstream of a river and 2 hours 30 minutes to cover a distance of 5 km upstream. Find the speed of the current.

  • 1 km/hr
  • 2 km/hr
  • 3 km/hr
  • 4 km/hr
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1. If Rahul rows 15 km upstream in 3 hours and 21 km downstream in 3 hours, then the speed of the stream is

  • 5 km/hr
  • 4 km/hr
  • 2 km/hr
  • 1 km/hr

2. The speed of a boat in still water is 15 km/hr and the rate of current is 3 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 12 minutes is

  • 1.6 km
  • 2 km
  • 3.6 km
  • 4 km

3. A motorboat, whose speed in 15 km/hr in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in a total of 4 hours 30 minutes. The speed of the stream (in km/hr) is

  • 2 km/hr
  • 3 km/hr
  • 4 km/hr
  • 5 km/hr

4. A man's speed with the current is 20 kmph and speed of the current is 3 kmph. The Man's speed against the current will be

  • 11 kmph
  • 12 kmph
  • 14 kmph
  • 17 kmph

5. A man can row \begin{aligned} 9\frac{1}{3} \end{aligned} kmph in still water and finds that it takes him thrice as much time to row up than as to row, down the same distance in the river. The speed of the current is.

  • \begin{aligned} 3\frac{2}{3}kmph \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 4\frac{2}{3}kmph \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 5\frac{2}{3}kmph \end{aligned}
  • \begin{aligned} 6\frac{2}{3}kmph \end{aligned}
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  • gowtham 11 years ago

    good