Boats and Streams Problem Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: A boat moves downstream at the rate of 1 km in $$7{1\over 2}$$ minutes and upstream at the rate of 5 km an hour. What is the speed of the boat in the still water?
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5f23d4823494c5438aa7c492- 14 km/hourfalse
- 23 km/hourfalse
- 38 km/hourfalse
- 4$$6{1\over 2}$$ km/hourtrue
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Answer : 4. "$$6{1\over 2}$$ km/hour "
Q: A man can row $$7{1\over 2}km/h$$ in still water. If a river running at 1.5 km an hour, it takes him 50 minutes to row to a place and back, how far off is the place?
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5f239310e3005114abcad6f1- 13 kmtrue
- 24 kmfalse
- 35 kmfalse
- 48 kmfalse
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Answer : 1. "3 km"
Q: The water in a river is flowing at a rate of 4 km/hr. If the width and depth of the river are 8m and 4m respectively, then how much water will enter the sea in 15 minutes?
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5f239698e3005114abcaecb8- 1$$28800 \ m^3 $$false
- 2$$32000\ m^3 $$true
- 3$$60000\ m^3 $$false
- 4$$18000\ m^3 $$false
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Answer : 2. "$$32000\ m^3 $$"
Q: 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, then the speed (in km/hr) of the boat in still water is :
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5f23df6d3494c5438aa7f0c2- 18 km/ hfalse
- 26 km/ hfalse
- 312 km/ hfalse
- 49 km/ htrue
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Answer : 4. "9 km/ h "
Q: A boat running downstreams covers a distance of 30 kms in 2 hours. While coming back the boat takes 6 hours to cover the same distance. If the speed of the current is half that of the boat, what is the speed of that boat in kmph?
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5da3fe99d691092704739eeb- 115false
- 25false
- 310true
- 4Cannot be determinedfalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 3. "10"
Q: A man swims downstream distance of 15 km in 1 hour. If the speed of the current is 5 km/ hr, the time taken by the man to swim the same distance upstream is :
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5dd6230bc2282c484e4b25d3- 11 hr 30 minfalse
- 245 minfalse
- 32 hr 30 minfalse
- 43 hrstrue
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Answer : 4. "3 hrs"
Q: The distance between AB is 174 km. Two Boats Start moving towards each other at the same time at points A and B respectively. One in upstream and other in downstream. If their speed in still water is 9.6 km/ hr. and 19.4 km/ hr. respectively. Then in how much time they will meet.
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5f2394884e7e0d508b57ac0d- 14.5 hr.false
- 26 hr.true
- 39 hr.false
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Answer : 2. "6 hr. "
Q: The speed of a boat in still water is 10 km/hr. It covers (upstream) a distance of 45 km in 6 hours. The speed (in km/hr) of the stream is :
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5f23e0653494c5438aa7fd32- 13.5 km/hfalse
- 24 km/hfalse
- 32.5 km/htrue
- 43 km/hfalse
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