Boats and Streams

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Boats and Streams: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Boats and Streams, Speed of Boat, Downstream Journey of Boat & River Crossing in 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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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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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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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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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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Ravi can row a boat in still water at the speed of 14 km/h. If a river is following at the speed of 2 km/h and Ravi takes 3 hours to cover a certain distance upstream, then how much time will he take to cover the same distance downstream?

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A boat goes 27 km upstream and 33 km downstream in 6 hours. In the same time, it can go 36 km upstream and 22 km downstream. How much time will it take to go 36 km upstream and 44 km downstream?

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Sunil can row a boat 20 km upstream in 1 hour 15 min. If the speed of the current of the river is 2 km/h, then how much time will he take to row the boat 30 km downstream?

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Boat covers X km in downstream in river 1 in 10 hours and same boat covers X km in upstream in river 2 in 18 hours. If the speed of the current in river1 is 40% less than that of in river2, then what can be the possible value(s) of the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current in the river1.

A. 24 & 6

B. 30 & 7.5

C.  20 & 4 

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Find the average speed of Aman in km/hour:

Aman walks at a speed such that he can cover a distance of 100 meters in 1 minute. If he walks a distance of 25 meters to reach a point A and returns back at a speed such that it takes him 6 seconds more than it did to reach A.

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What is the speed of the current in km per hour?

Anudip can usually row a boat 12 km downstream in 6 hours less than it takes him to travel the same distance upstream. He doubles up his usual rowing rate such that it takes him one hour less to travel the same distance downstream than to travel upstream.

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The speed of a boat in still water is thrice the speed of the current. The time taken by the boat to cover 130 km downstream is 2 hours more than the time taken by the boat to cover 45 km upstream. If the speed of the current is x km/hr, then the time taken by the boat to cover 90 km downstream is how much more/less than the time taken to cover 80 km upstream?

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A boat whose speed in still water is _______% more than the speed of the current covers 1980 m downstream in _____ sec. The speed of the boat in still water is ______ m/sec.

The values given in which of the following options will fill the blanks in the same order in which is it given to make the statement true:

A. 40%, 165, 7

B. 25%, 110, 10

C.  20%, 36, 30

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A boat travels at a speed of 20 km/hr in stable water. It goes a distance of 120 km upstream and then returns in 12.5 hours. Speed of the stream __________ (in km/hr). The time taken _________ (in hours) by the boat to travel 80 km in the flowing river.

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A motorboat covers some distance upstream and downstream in 6 hours. If speed of motorboat in still water is 30 km/h and speed of stream is 10 km/h. Then find the distance covered.