Boats and Streams problems
- 1. If a boat goes a certain distance at 30 km/hr and comes back the same distance at 60 km/hr. What is the average speed (in km/hr) for the total journey?
Options- A. 45
- B. 50
- C. 40
- D. 35 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 40
- 2. A steamer moves with a speed of 4.5 km/h in still water to a certain upstream point and comes back to the starting point in a river which flows at 1.5 km/h. The average speed of steamer for the total journey is
Options- A. 12 km/h
- B. 10 km/h
- C. 6 km/h
- D. 4 km/h Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 4 km/h
Explanation:
Speed of streamer = 4.5 km/hrSpeed of water = 1.5 km/hr
Downstream speed = 4.5+1.5 = 6 km/hr
Upstream speed = 4.5 -1.5 = 3 km/hr
Average Speed = (6 X 3) / 4.5 = 4km/hr
- 3. The ratio of the speed of a boat downstream and speed of the stream is 9:1. If the speed of the current is 3 km per hr, find the distance travelled by the boat upstream in 5 hours.
Options- A. 100 km
- B. 98 km
- C. 109 km
- D. 105 km Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 105 km
Explanation:
Let the speed of boat in still water is ?x? km/hr & that of stream is ?y? km/hr.
Then, ATQ
(x+y)/y = 9/1 9y = x + y
x = 8y
y = 3 km/hr
So, x = 24 km/hr
Upstream speed = 24-3 = 21 km/hr
Hence, distance travelled upstream in 5 hours = 21*5 = 105 km.
- 4. A boat goes a certain distance at 40 km/hr and comes back the same distance at 24 km/hr. What is the average speed (in km/hr) for the total journey?
Options- A. 32
- B. 28
- C. 34
- D. 30 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 30
- 5. A boat moves down stream at the rate of 8km/hr. and upstream at 4Km/hr. The speed of the boat in still waters is:
Options- A. 4.5 km/hr.
- B. 5 km/hr.
- C. 6 km/hr.
- D. 6.4 km/hr. Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 6 km/hr.
- 6. Speeds of a boat along the current and against the current are 14 km/hr and 7 km/hr respectively. What is the speed of boat (in km/hr) in still water?
Options- A. 3.5
- B. 7.5
- C. 10.5
- D. 9.5 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 10.5
- 7. If a boat goes upstream at a speed of 24 km/hr and comes back the same distance at 40 km/hr. What is the average speed (in km/hr) for the total journey.
Options- A. 32
- B. 30
- C. 31
- D. 33 Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 30
- 8. Ashok can row upstream at 8 kmph and downstream at 12kmph.What is the speed of the stream ?
Options- A. 6 km/hr
- B. 3 km/hr
- C. 2 km/hr
- D. 4.5 km/hr Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 2 km/hr
Explanation:
If the speed downstream is a kmph and the speedup stream is b kmph then
Speed of the stream = 1/2 x (a?b) kmph
Speed downstream a = 12kmph
Speed upstream b = 8 kmph
Speed of the stream = 1/2 x (a?b) = 1/2 x (12?8)= 4/2 = 2 kmph
- 9. A boat covers 63 km upstream in 9 hours and covers the same distance downstream in 7 hours . What is the speed (in km/ hr) of the boat in still water?
Options- A. 8.7
- B. 8.5
- C. 7
- D. 8 Discuss
Correct Answer: 8
- 10. Speed of a boat along and against the current are 14 kms/hr and 8 kms/hr respectively. The speed of the current is
Options- A. 11 kms/hr
- B. 6 kms/hr
- C. 5.5 kms/hr
- D. 3 kms/hr Also asked in: Bank Exams
Correct Answer: 3 kms/hr
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