Quiz Discussion

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:

• 1]

  4

• 2]

  5

• 3]

  6

• 4]

  10

A man row to a place 48 km distant and back on 14 hours text. He finds that he can row 4 km with the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream. The rate of the stream is?

• 1] 1 km/hr
• 2] 1.5 km/hr
• 3] 1.8 km/hr
• 4] 3.5 km/hr

A motorboat in still water travels at a speed of 36 km/hr. It goes 56 km upstream in 1 hour 45 monutes. The time taken by it to cover the same distance down the stream will be-

• 1] 1 hour 24 minutes
• 2] 2 hour 21 minutes
• 3] 2 hour 25 minutes
• 4] 3 hour

A man rows to a place 48 km distant and come 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 rate of the stream is:

• 1] 1 km/hr
• 2] 1.5 km/hr
• 3] 2 km/hr
• 4] 2.5 km/hr

The speed of a boat along the stream is 12 km/hr and against the stream is 8 km/hr. The time taken by the boat to sail 24 km in still water is?

• 1] 2 hrs
• 2] 3 hrs
• 3] 2.4 hrs
• 4] 1.2 hrs

A boat can tarvel 36 km upstream in 5 hours. If the speed of the stream is 2.4 kmph, how much time will the boat take to cover a distance of 78 km downstream?(in hours)

• 1] 5 hours
• 2] 6.5 hours
• 3] 5.5 hours
• 4] 8 hours

A man can row upstream at 12km/hr and downstream at 18 km/hr. The man rowing speed in still water is?

• 1] 15 km/hr
• 2] 5 km/hr
• 3] 3 km/hr
• 4] 10 km/hr

a man can row 8 km/hr in still water and he find that it takes thrice as long to row upstream as to row downstream to the same point. What is the speed of the current?

• 1]

  1 kmph

• 2]

  2 kmph

• 3]

  3 kmph

• 4]

  4 kmph

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.

• 1] 2 hours
• 2] 3 hours
• 3] 4 hours
• 4] 5 hours
• 5] None of these

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.

• 1] 2 hours 40 minutes
• 2] 2 hours 42 minutes
• 3] 2 hours 10 minutes
• 4] 2 hours 30 minutes