A sailor goes 8 km downstream in 40 minutes
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A sailor goes 8 km downstream in 40 minutes and returns in 1 hour.Determine the speed of the sailor in still water and the speed of the current?
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Your answer is in the photo
after seeing photo see this
from (1)
x+y=12
10 + y = 12
y=2km/hr
therefore speed of the current is 2km/hr.
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