Boats and Streams MCQs
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Question 37easy
A boat can row 35 km, upstream in 7 hours and the same distance downstream in 5 hours. What is the speed (in km/hr) of the boat in still water?
Question 38hard
A man rows to a place 48 km distant and comes 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. The speed of the stream is:
Question 39easy
A motorboat goes 24 km in 2 hour along the stream and 10 km in 1 hour against the stream. The speed of the motorboat in kilometres per hour, is:
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Question 40easy
A boat moves 25 km upstream and 39 km downstream in 8 hours. It travels 35 km upstream and 52 km downstream in 11 hours. What is the speed of the stream if it travels at a uniform speed?
Question 41medium
A boat can cover a distance of 56 km downstream in 3.5 hours. The ratio of the boat in still water and the speed of stream is 3 : 1. How much time (in hours) will the boat take to cover a distance of 41.6 km downstream?
Question 42hard
A man rows a boat a certain distance downstream in 9 hours, while it takes 18 hours to row the same distance upstream. How many hours will it take him to row $$\frac{3}{5}$$ of the same distance in still water?
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Question 43easy
Two boat are travelling with speed of 36 km/hr and 54 km/hr respectively towards each other. What is the distance (in metres) between the two boats one second before they collide?
Question 44hard
A motor boat can travel 40 km downstream and 30 km upstream in 10 hours. It can travel 80 km downstream and 40 km upstream in 15 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
Question 45medium
The speed of a boat in still water is 15 km/h, and the speed of the current is 5 km/h. In how much time (in hours) will the boat travel a distance of 60 km upstream and the same distance downstream?