Boats and Streams Problem Practice Question and Answer
8 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 can row at a speed of $$4{1\over 2}$$km/hr in still water. If he takes 2 times as long to row a distance upstream as to row the same distance downstream, then the speed of stream (in km/hr) is :
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5f23ea55e3005114abcc5c22- 12false
- 22.5false
- 31false
- 41.5true
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Answer : 4. "1.5 "
Q: A boat covers 24 km upstream and 36 km downstream in 6 hours, while it covers 36 km upstream and 24 km downstream in $$6{1\over 2}$$ hours. The speed of the current is:
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5f23e32c1436461f6a2f43c6- 11.5 km/ hrfalse
- 22.5 km/ hrfalse
- 31 km/ hrfalse
- 42 km/ hrtrue
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Answer : 4. "2 km/ hr "
Q: A motorboat covers a certain distance downstream in a river in 3 hours. It covers the same distance upstream in 3 and half an hour. If the speed of the water is 1.5 km / h, then the speed of the boat in still water is:
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5f23dd8b1436461f6a2f3713- 119.5 km/htrue
- 219 km/hfalse
- 317 km/hfalse
- 417.5 km/hfalse
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Answer : 1. "19.5 km/h"
Q: A boat rows downstream covers a distance of 20 km in 2 hrs while it covers the same distance upstream in 5 hrs. Then speed of the boat in still water is :
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5f23e7d11436461f6a2f5859- 19 km/ hrfalse
- 210 km/ hrfalse
- 37 km/ hrtrue
- 48 km/ hrfalse
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Answer : 3. "7 km/ hr "
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 speed of the motorboat in still water is 45 kmph. If the motorboat travels 80 km along the stream in 1 hour 20 minutes, then the time taken by it to cover the same distance against the stream will be:
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5f23e6e03494c5438aa8242c- 12 hrs, 40 mintrue
- 22 hrs, 55 minfalse
- 33 hrsfalse
- 41 hrs, 20 minfalse
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Answer : 1. "2 hrs, 40 min "
Q: The speed of a boat downstream is 15 km/hr. and the speed of current is 3 km/hr. Find the total time taken by the boat to cover 15 km upstream and 15 km downstream.
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5f2398831436461f6a2dc47a- 13 hours 10 minutesfalse
- 22 hours 30 minutesfalse
- 32 hours 40 minutestrue
- 42 hours 42 minutesfalse
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