Boat and Stream Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: A boat running upstream takes 7 hours and 40 minutes to cover a certain distance while it takes 5 hours to cover the same distance downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of the current and speed of the boat respectively?
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Answer : 4. "4: 19 "
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
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Answer : 1. "3 km"
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 boat goes 15 km in an hour in still water, and takes thrice the time to cover the same distance upstream. The speed of the current (in km / hr) is –
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62fb40bdd30c675eef59e1bf- 113 km/hrfalse
- 214 km/hrtrue
- 313 km/hrfalse
- 414 km/hrfalse
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Answer : 2. "14 km/hr"
Q: A man rows from J to K (upstream) and back from K to J (downstream) in a total time of 15 hours. The distance between J and K is 300 km. The time taken by the man to row 9 km downstream is identical to the time taken by him to row 3 km upstream. What is the approximate speed of the boat in still water?
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643d1b1332185cce373ef571- 151.33 km/hfalse
- 247.67 km/hfalse
- 353.33 km/htrue
- 443.67 km/hfalse
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Answer : 3. "53.33 km/h"
Q: A boat can row 15 km per hour downstream and 9 km per hour upstream. The speed (in km/hour) of the boat in still water is:
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Answer : 3. "12"
Q: A man can row 10 km/h in still water. When the river is running at a speed of 4.5 km/h, then it takes him 2 h to row to a place and comes back to the initial point . How far is the place (in km) (rounded off to two decimal places)?
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Answer : 3. "7.98 "
Q: A boat goes downstream in one-third the time it takes to go upstream. Then the ratio between the speed of boat in still water and speed of the stream is
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