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A boat takes 12 hours to cover an upstream distance of 48 km and 6 hours to come back same distance in downstream. What is the speed of boat in steel water?
6 kmph
8 kmph
4 kmph
10 kmph
A swimmer can swim 33⅓% faster in downstream than in upstream. He takes 4 hours to swim a distance of 32 km in still water. Speed of stream is how much percent of upstream speed?
16.33%
12.25 %
16.67%
14.28 %
Rohit and Mohit are coming via boat towards each other from the two banks of a river. They meet after three hours from start. If speed of both boats in still water is 6 kmph and river is flowing from Mohit towards Rohit, then find the distance between two banks.
18 km
36 km
24 km
48 km
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
3 kmph
5kmph
4kmph
2kmph
A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 minutes to cover a certain distance, while it takes 4 hours to cover the same distance running downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of the boat in still water and speed of the water current respectively?
2:1
3:2
4:5
8:3
A boat takes 9hr to travel a distance upstream and takes 6hr to travel the same distance downstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 4 kmph, then what is the velocity of the stream?
0.8
0.3
0.7
0.4
A boat has to travel upstream 20 km distance from point X of a river to point Y. The total time taken by boat in travelling from point X to Y and Y to X is 41 min 40 s. What is the speed of the boat?
66 kmph
77kmph
88kmph
cannot be determined
A steamer goes downstream from one port to another in 4 hr. It covers the same distance upstream in 5 hr. If the speed of the stream is 2 kmph, then find the distance between the two ports.
80
45
55
65
The ratio of speeds of a motorboat to that of the current of water is 36 : 5. The motorboat goes along with the current in 5 hours 10 min. Find the time taken by motorboat to come back.
5 hours 50 min
6 hours
12 hours 10 min
None of these
7400% of 1372 +1716of 2499
58
54
66
56
Kamal can row a certain distance downstream in 12 hours and can return the same distance in 18 hours. If the stream flows at the rate of 6 kmph, then find the speed of Kamal in still water.
30 kmph
100 kmph
33 kmph
133kmph
Ratio between speed of boat in still water to speed of stream is 5 : 2. If 224 km is travelled by downstream in 4 hours then find the difference between speed of boat in still water and speed of stream?
24 kmph
22 kmph
28 kmph
26 kmph
If the upstream speed of a boat is 50% less than the downstream speed of the boat and if a object is thrown in the river it covers 100m in 50 sec, then how much distance boat can cover in still water in 5 hours?
900 m
100 m
120 m
108 m
A steamer can go 12 km in still water in 25 minutes. One day, it went 11.25 km upstream and returned the same distance in downstream. If the difference between the time taken to travel upstream and downstream was 12.5 minutes, then what was the speed of stream in km per hour?
7.2
5.4
6.3
4.5
The ratio of speed of A and B in still water is 3 : 2. A and B start from the same point in the river, A goes upstream and B goes downstream. After 3 hours the stream stops flowing and A starts rowing in the opposite direction to meet B. How much time after the stream stops flowing does A meet B?
16 hr
15 hr
12 hr
18 hr
A boat goes a certain distance upstream and comes back downstream to the starting point in 144 min. If the speed of the boat in still water becomes 66.67% of the original, time taken for the same journey will be 224 min. What is the ratio of the speed of boat in still water and speed of current?
7:1
6:1
5:3
7:2
The speed of current is 5 km/h. What will be the respective downstream speed and upstream speed of a boy rowing a boat, if one third of the distance covered going downstream in a certain time is equal to the distance covered going upstream in the same time.
15 kmph, 5 kmph
20 kmph, 10kmph
18 kmph, 8 kmph
24 kmph, 14 kmph
There are 3 points P, Q and R in a straight line, such that point Q is equidistant from points P and R. A man can swim from point P to R downstream in 24 hours and from Q to P upstream in 16 hours. Find the ratio of speed of man in still water to speed of stream?
5 : 1
6:1
5:3
7:1
Rohit can row a boat 65Km upstream and 130Km downstream in 23 hours, whereas he can swim 45Km upstream and 104Km downstream in 17 hours. Find the speed of boat in still water and the speed of stream.
4km/h, 9km/h
8km/h, 5km/h
9km/h, 4km/h
5km/h, 8km/h
A boat can travel with a speed of 13 km/hr in still water. If the speed of the stream is 4 km/hr, find the time taken by the boat to go 68 km downstream.
2
3
4
5
A man can row upstream 10 kmph and downstream 20 kmph. Find the man rate in still water and rate of the stream.
0,5
5,5
15,5
10,5
A man's speed with the current is 15 km/hr and the speed of the current is 2.5 km/hr. The man's speed against the current is:
10kmph
15kmph
18kmph
9kmph
A man's speed with the current is 15 km/hr and the speed of the current is 2.5 km/hr. The man's speed against the current is:
8.5
12.5
10
9
The speed of river Ganga is 5 km/hr. A motor boat travels 28 km upstream and then returns downstream to the starting point. If its speed in still water be 9 km/hr, find the total journey time.
5 hr
8 hr
9 hr
10 hr
A boat travels 32 km upstream and 60 km downstream in 9 hr. Also it travels 40 km upstream and 84 km downstream in 12 hrs. Find the speed of the boat in still water and rate of the current.
10,2
8,4
9,3
7,5
A boat running downstream covers a distance of 30 kms in 2 hrs. While coming back the boat takes 6 hrs to cover the same distance. If the speed of the current is half that of the boat, what is the speed of the boat?
15 km/hr
54 km/hr
10 km/hr
None of these
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