Boats and Streams

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Boats and Streams: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as River Crossing in Boats and Streams, Speed of Boat Upstream, Upstream Journey of Boat, Downstream Journey of Boat, Speed of Boat Downstream, Rate of Stream, Boats and Streams, etc.

Important Questions on Boats and Streams

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Find the speed (in km/hr) of the boat in still water. If a boat goes 12 km downstream and comes back to the starting point in 3 Hours. If the speed of the current is 3 km/hr.

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A man rows 13 km upstream in 5 h and also 28 km downstream in 5 h. The velocity of the stream is ______

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What is the speed of stream ?
(i) The boat covers 20 km in 5 hours moving up stream.
(ii) The boat covers 20 km in 4 hours moving down stream.
(iii) The ratio between the speed of boat and stream is 2 : 1 respectively.
Which of the following statements are necessary to answer the question:

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A boat can cover upstream 24 km in 6 hours and returns downstream 20 km in 4 hours. Then find the speed of boat in still water?

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A man can row 34 of a km against the stream in 1114 min and returns in712 min. Find his speed in still water.

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The speed of a boat in still water 11 km/hr. It can go 12 km upstream and return downstream to the starting point in 2 hr 45 min. What is the speed of stream?

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The speed of the current is 2 km/h. A boat goes 20 km upstream and back again to the starting point in 110 min. What is the speed of the boat in still water?

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In a stream running at 2 km/hr a boat goes 6 km up-stream and back again to be the starting point after 33 min. Find the speed of the boat in still water?

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A boat goes down stream at x kmhr and upstream at y kmhr. The speed of the boat in still water is _____.

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A man rows upstream a distance of 9 km or downstream a distance of 18 km taking 3 h each time. Find the speed of the boat in still water.

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A boat covers a distance of 24 km in down stream in 4 hours while it covers the same distance in upstream in 6 hours. What is the speed of boat in still water?

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Speed of the boat on calm water is 15 kmph. After floating 45 km against the direction of flow it returns to its initial position in 274 h. Find the speed of flow.

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What is the speed of the stream in km/hr. 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 ?

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A boat has to travel upstream 20 km distance from point X of a river to point Y. The total time taken by the boat in travelling from point X to Y and Y to X is 4 minutes and 40 seconds. What is the speed of the boat?

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Find the speed of the stream. A boat takes 90 Minutes less to travels 36 Miles downstream than to travel the same distance upstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 10 m/h.

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A boat covers 12 km upstream and 18 km downstream in 3 hrs, while it covers 36 km upstream and 24 km downstream in 612 hours. What is the speed of the current?

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A boat takes 150 min less to travel 40 km downstream than to travel the same distance upstream. The speed of the stream is 4 km/hr. What is the downstream speed?

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Subhash started from point P in a boat to reach point Q. After 8.7 hours, he covered only 15% of the distance and reach at point R. Now, Subhash started from point R and reached at mid-point of P and Q and came back to R in 35.35 hours. Time taken by Subhash to cover the distance between Q and P when he started from point Q is 13 hours more than time taken by Rajesh to cover a distance of 720 km in upstream and the speed of Rajesh in downstream is 20% more than his speed in still water. 

In what time Subhash can cover the distance between Q and P if he started from point Q? 

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A person can row a distance of 2 km upstream in 15 min and downstream in 6 min. What is the speed of the stream ?

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Ram rows a boat against a stream flowing at 2 km/h for a distance of 12 km and then turns around and rows back with the current. If the whole trip lasts 8 hours, find Ram's rowing speed in still water.