Question: A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes. How long will it take to go 5 km in stationary water?
- 1. 40 minutes
- 2. 1 hour
- 3. 1 hr 15 min
- 4. 1 hr 30 min
Question: A man can row 9 1/3 km/hr in still water and he finds that is thrice as much time to row u p than as to row down the same distance in river. The speed of the current is:________?
- 1. 3 1/3 km/hr
- 2. 3 1/9 km/hr
- 3. 1 ¼ km/hr
- 4. 4 2/3 km/hr
Question: A boat travels upstream from B to A and downstream from A to B in 3 hours. If the speed of the boat in still water is 9km/hr and the speed of the current is 3km/hr, the distance A and B is:_______?
- 1. 4km
- 2. 6 km
- 3. 8 km
- 4. 12 km
Question: The speed of a boat in still water is 2km/hr. If its speed upstream be 1km/hr then speed of the stream is________?
- 1. 1.5km/hr
- 2. 3km/hr
- 3. 1km/hr
- 4. none
Question: A boat takes half time in moving a certain distance downstream than upstream. What is the ratio between the rate in still water and rate of current?
- 1. 1 : 2
- 2. 3 : 1
- 3. 2 : 1
- 4. 1 : 3
Question: A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes. How long will he take to go 5km in stationery water?
- 1. 40 Minutes
- 2. 1 Hour
- 3. 1 hr 15 Min
- 4. 1 Hr 30 Min
Question: A man can row 7 ½ kms on hour in still water and he finds that it takes hi twice as long to row down the river. The rate of stream is:
- 1. 2.4km/hr
- 2. 2.5 km/hr
- 3. 3.4km/hr
- 4. 3.5km/hr
Question: A man can row three-quarters of a kilometer against the stream in 11 ¼ minutes and return in 7 ½ minutes. The speed of the man in still water is________?
- 1. 2km/hr
- 2. 3km/hr
- 3. 4 km/hr
- 4. 5 km/hr
Question: A boat goes 6 km in an hour in still water. It takes thrice as much time in covering the same distance against the current. Speed of the current is_______?
- 1. 2 km/hr
- 2. 3km/hr
- 3. 4km/hr
- 4. 5 km/hr
Question: A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 min to cover a certain distance while it takes 4 hours to cover the same distance running downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of the boat and the speed of water current respectively?
- 1. 2 : 1
- 2. 3 : 1
- 3. 8 : 3
- 4. Cannot be determined