Question

Please answer the word problem for a medal:
Catherine is camping along a river. It takes her 1.5 hours to paddle her canoe 6 miles upstream from her campsite. Catherine turns her canoe around and returns 6 miles downstream to her campsite in exactly 1 hour. What is the rate of the river's current and the rate of Catherine's paddling in still water?

Answer 1

Please show work

Answer 2

i have no clue lol

Answer 3

ok

Answer 4

she paddled 4 mph upstream and 6 mph downstream.

Answer 5

thankyou!

Answer 6

yup right

Answer 7

but there is more. That is how fast she is paddling, but what is the current?

Answer 8

1 mph is the speed of the current

Answer 9

So if there is no current, how fast can she paddle?