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A person can row a motor boat in still water at the rate of 12 km/hr. It takes him thrice as long to row upstream of a river as to row downstream of the same river. The speed of the stream is :

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

For the same distance, thrice the time upstream means the downstream speed is three times the upstream speed: 12+s=3(12−s)12+s=3(12-s). So 4s=244s=24 and s=6s=6 km/hr.

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