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A boat, which moves at 29 miles per hour in water without a current , goes 825 miles upstream and 825 miles back again in 58 hours. Find the speed of the current to the nearest the the place.

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Answer:

  4 mph

Step-by-step explanation:

Travel time is proportional to distance and inversely proportional to speed. If c represents the speed of the current in miles per hour, an equation for the total trip time is ...

  825/(29 -c) +825/(29 +c) = 58 . . . . . . hours travel time

  825(29 +c) +825(29 -c) = 58(29 -c)(29 +c)

  58c² -928 = 0 . . . . . . . rearrange to standard form

  58(c -4)(c +4) = 0 . . . . factor

Values of c that satisfy this equation are 4 and -4. For the purpose here, we'll choose the positive solution.

The speed of the current is 4 miles per hour.

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