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a boat has speed 5km/h in still water. it crosses a river of width 1 km along shortest path in 15 minutes. Velocity of river is
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The boat should only need a speed of 4km/hr to reach 1k in 15 minutes, if the water was still. If the boat continuously travels in a strait line while the water is moving, the boat would need to steer into the current to maintain a strait line to achieve the 1km shortest path. Since the boat speed is 5km, the boat had to speed up 1km/h to 5km/h and steer into the river current. |dw:1415072762619:dw|
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