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Q1mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
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A boat covers a certain distance downstream in 2 hours, while it returns in hours. If the speed of the current is 3 km/h, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
Q2mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam Practice2026
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A person can row downstream 49 km in 7 hours and upstream 36 km in 9 hours. What is the speed of the current?
Q3mediummcqQuantitative AptitudePrepp2026
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A man wants to cover a distance of in a river. It takes him to cover this distance in still water, but it takes in the flowing river. Find the speed of the flowing water of the river.
Q4mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
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A man can row 9km/h in still water. If the river is running at 4km/h, it takes 8 hours more in upstream than to go downstream for the same distance. How far is the place?
Q5mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
The speed of a boat in still water is 15km/h and the speed of the current is 9km/h. The distance travelled by the boat downstream in 25 minutes is:
Q6mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeWBCS Prelims2026
A fisherman can row against the stream in and return in . The speed of the boat in still water is
Q7mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeWBCS Prelims 20212026
A boatman can row a boat downstream and upstream at and respectively. What will be the speed of boat in still water? (in kmph)
Q8mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeGeneral Aptitude Test2026
A boatman can row a boat downstream and upstream at and respectively. What will be the speed of boat in still water? (in )
Q9mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A boat running downstream covers a distance of in while for covering the same distance upstream, it takes . What is the speed of the boat in still water?
Q10mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A boatman goes against the current of the stream in and goes along the current in . How long will it take to go in stationary water?
Q11mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A man rows downstream and upstream. If he takes to cover each distance, then the velocity (in ) of the current is:
Q12mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A man can row upstream at and downstream at . The speed of the stream is:
Q13mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
The speed of a boat in still water is . If it can travel downstream and upstream in the same amount of time, the speed of the stream is:
Q14mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A boatman can row a boat downstream and upstream at and respectively. What will be the speed of the boat in still water (in )?
Q15mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
To go a distance of upstream, a rower takes while it takes her only to row the same distance downstream. The speed of the stream is ______.
Q16mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeUP Police Constable2026
The speed of a boat along and against the current is and respectively. Then the speed of the current (in ) is:
Q17mediummcqQuantitative AptitudePractice Test2026
Manmath rowed a distance downstream in while it took him to row the same distance upstream. To make the two-way journey in still water, how many hours will it take him?
Q18mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A boat goes upstream in hours and downstream in hours. The speed of the boat in still water is:
Q19mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeSSC CGL2026
The speed of a boat in still water is 6 km/h and the speed of the stream is 1.5 km/h. In going from point A to point B and returning to A, the boatman takes 2 hours 40 min. Find the distance between points A and B.
Q20mediummcqQuantitative AptitudePractice Mock2026
A man can row a boat at 10km/h in still water. If the speed of the stream is 7km/h, what is the time taken to row a distance of 85km down the stream?
Q21mediummcqQuantitative AptitudePrepp2026
A man can row an hour in still water. He finds that it takes four times as much time to row upstream as it takes to row downstream. The speed of the stream is:
Q22mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
The speed of a boat in still water is and the speed of the current is one-third the speed of the boat in still water. How much time will it take to go upstream and downstream, assuming that no time is lost in changing direction?
Q23mediummcqQuantitative AptitudePrepp2026
A man wishes to cover a distance of in river water. In still water he takes 12 minutes to cover it, but in the flowing river he takes 13 minutes. The speed of the flowing water of the river is:
Q24mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A motorboat, whose speed is 15km/h in still water goes 20km downstream and comes back in a total of 4hours. The speed of the stream (in km/h) is:
Q25easymcqQuantitative AptitudeSSC Selection Post 2021 Matriculation Level2026
The speed of a boat in still water is 10km/h and the speed of the stream is 3km/h. How much time (in hours) will it take to sail 39km downstream and then return immediately 28km upstream?
Q26hardmcqQuantitative AptitudeSSC Selection Post 2021 Matriculation Level2026
A boat can move upstream and the same distance downstream in a total time of hours. If the speed of the boat in still water is , then the speed (in ) of the stream is:
Q27hardmcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
If the speed of a boat moving against the current is , what is the speed of the stream if the boat's speed downstream is greater than its speed upstream?
Q28mediummcqQuantitative AptitudeCompetitive Exam2026
A person can row an hour in still water and he finds that it takes him twice as long to row up as to row down the stream. The speed of the stream is:

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