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The speed of the river is 5/3 km/hr and the speed of the boat in still water is 3 km/hr.

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Streams: (26 Questions)

The speed of the river is 5/3 km/hr and the speed of the boat in still water is 3 km/hr.

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Streams (26 Questions)

10. A man can row at the rate of 4 km/hr in still


1. The speed of a boar in still water is 2 km/hr. If its
water. If the time taken to row a certain
speed upstream be 1 km/hr, then speed of the
distance upstream is 3 times as much as to row
stream is
the same distance downstream, find the speed
Ans: 1 km/hr
of the current.
Ans: 2 km/hr
2. Speed of a man is 9 km/hr in still water. If the
rate of current is 5 km/hr, find the effective
1
speed of the man upstream. 11. A person can row 7 km an hour in still water
Ans: 4 km/hr 2
and he finds that it takes him twice as long
3. Speed of a swimmer is 8 km/hr in still water. If to row up as to tow down the river. Find the
the rate of stream is 3 km/hr, find the effective rate of the stream.
speed of the swimmer downstream. Ans: 2.5 km/hr
Ans: 11 km/hr
12. A person can swim in still water at 4 km/hr. If
4. A man can row downstream at the rate of 14 the speed of water is 2 km/hr, how manu hours
km/hr and upstream at 5 km/hr. Find man’s rate will the man take to swim back against the
in still water. current for 6 km.
Ans: 9.5 km/hr Ans: 3

5. A man can row 44 km downstream in 4 hours. If 13. A man can row in still water at 7 km/hr and the
the man’s rowing rate in still water is 8 km/hr, rate of stream is 3.5 km/hr. A distance of 10.5
then find in what time will he cover 25 km km in going upstream is covered in
upstream? Ans: 3 hrs
Ans: 5 hours
14. The speed of a boat in still water is 6 km/hr and
6. A man can row three quarters of a km against the speed of the stream is 1.5 km/hr. A man
the stream in 11 minutes 15 seconds and return rows to a place at a distance of 22.5 km and
in 7 minutes 30 seconds. Find the speed of the comes back to the starting point. Find the total
man in still water and also the speed of the time taken by him.
stream. Ans: 8 hrs
Ans: 5 km/hr, 1 km/hr
15. A man can row 6 km/hr in still water. When the
7. A boat moves downstream at the rate of 1 km in river is running at 1.2 km/hr, it takes him 1 hour
6 minutes and upstream aat the rate of 1 km in to row to a place and back. How far is the place?
10 minutes. The speed of the current is Ans: 2.88 km
Ans: 2 km/hr
16. A boat travels upstream from B to A and
8. A man rows 40 km upstream in 8 hours and a downstream from A to B in 3 hours. If the speed
distance of 36 km downstream in 6 hours, then of the boat in still water is 9 km/hr and the
speed of the stream is speed of the current is 3 km/hr, the distance
Ans: 0.5 km/hr between A and B (in km) is
Ans: 12
9. In 3 hours a boat can be rowed 9 km upstream
or 18 km downstream. Find the speed of the 17. A boat’s crew rowed down a stream from A to B
boat in still water and the rate at which the and up again in 9 hours. If the stream flows at
stream is running. 1
2 km/hr and the crew can row in still
Ans: 4.5 km/hr, 1.5 km/hr 2
1
water at 4 km/hr, find the distance from A
2
to B.
Ans: 14 km
row from P to Q and back in 10 hours and I can
row from P to R in 4 hours. Compare the speed
of my boat in still water with that of the river.
18. In a stream running at 2 km/hr, a motorboat Ans: 5 : 3
goes 10 km upstream and back again to the
starting point in 55 minutes. Find the speed of
the motorboat in still water.
Ans: 22 km/hr

19. A man can row 30 km upstream and 44 km


downstream in 10 hrs. Also, he can row 40 km
upstream and 55 km downstream in 13 hrs. Find
the rate of the current and the speed of the man
in still water.
Ans: 8 km/hr. 3 km/hr

20. Ramesh can row a certain distance downstream


in 6 hours and return the same distance in 9
hours. If the stream flows at the rate of 3 km/hr
find the speed of Ramesh in still water.
Ans: 15 km/hr

21. A man can row at a speed of 5 km/hr in still


water to a certain upstream point and back to
the starting point in a river which flows at 2
km/hr. Find his average speed for total journey.
1
Ans: 4 km/hr
5

22. A man can row 6 km/hr in still water. If the river


is running at 2 km/hr, it takes 3 hours more in
upstream than to go downstream for the same
distance. How far is the place?
Ans: 24 km

23. A man can row 9 km/hr in still water. If the river


is running at 3 km/hr, it takes 3 hours more in
upstream than to go downstream for the same
distance. How far is the place?
Ans: 36 km

24. A boat takes 3 hours to travel from place M to N


downstream and back from N to M upstream. If
the speed of the boat in still water is 4 km, what
is the distance between the two places?
Ans: Data inadequate

25. A man rows to a place 48 km distant and back in


14 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km with the
stream in the same time as 3 km against the
stream. Find the rate of the stream?
Ans: 1 km/hr

26. P, Q and R are the three towns on a river which


flows uniformly. Q is equidistant from P and R. I

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