Boats and Streams
40 questions in this chapter.
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ABC26GN3803 · A boat goes 8 km in one hour along the stream and 2 km in one hour against the stream. The speed in km/hr of the stream is · 2005
ABC26GN3804 · In one hour, a boat goes 11 km along the stream and 5 km against the stream. The speed of the boat in still water (in km/hr) is · 2009
ABC26GN3796 · The speed of a motor boat is that of the current of water as 36 : 5. The boat goes along with the current in 5 hours 10 minutes. How much…
ABC26GN3805 · A man rows downstream 32 km and 14 km upstream. If he takes 6 hours to cover each distance, then the velocity (in kmph) of the current is · 2008
ABC26GN3806 · A boatman rows 1 km in 5 minutes, along the stream and 6 km in 1 hour against the stream. The speed of the stream is · 2010
ABC26GN3798 · There is a road beside a river. Two friends started from a place A, moved to a temple situated at another place B and then returned to A…
ABC26GN3807 · A boat takes half time in moving a certain distance downstream than upstream. What is the ratio between the rate in still water and the… · 2006
ABC26GN3808 · If a man goes 18 km downstream in 4 hours and returns against the stream in 12 hours, then the speed of the stream in km/hr is · 2008
ABC26GN3800 · A boat goes 8 km upstream and then returns. Total time taken is 4 hrs 16 minutes. If the velocity of current is 1 km/hr, find the actual… · 2007
ABC26GN3809 · 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…
ABC26GN3810 · A man can row 3/4 of a km against the stream in 11 1/4 minutes and returns in 7 1/2 minutes. Find the speed of the man in still water. · 2008
ABC26GN3802 · A boat goes 30 km upstream and 44 km downstream in 10 hours. In 13 hours, it can go 40 km upstream and 55 km downstream. The speed of the…
ABC26GN3811 · A boat, while going downstream in a river covered a distance of 50 miles at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. While returning, because… · 2004
ABC26GN3848 · What is the speed of the current? (R.B.I., 2004) I. Speed of the boat is 4 km/hr in still water. II. The boat runs at a speed of 6 km/hr…
ABC26GN3812 · A man swimming in a stream which flows 1 1/2 km / hr finds that in a given time he can swim twice as far with the stream as he can against… · 2008
ABC26GN3849 · What is the speed of the boat in still water? I. The speed downstream is 12 kmph. II. The speed upstream is 4 kmph. III. In a to and fro…
ABC26GN3813 · A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 minutes to cover a certain distance, while it takes 4 hours to cover the same distance running…
ABC26GN3850 · What is the speed of stream? (Bank P.O., 2004) I. The boat covers 24 km in 6 hours moving upstream. II. The boat covers 24 km in 3 hours…
ABC26GN3814 · If a boat goes 7 km upstream in 42 minutes and the speed of the stream is 3 kmph, then the speed of the boat in still water is : · 2010
ABC26GN3815 · A man's speed with the current is 15 km/hr and the speed of the current is 2.5 km/hr. The man's speed against the current is :
ABC26GN3816 · If a man rows at the rate of 5 kmph in still water and his rate against the current is 3.5 kmph, then the man's rate along the current is :
ABC26GN3817 · A motorboat in still water travels at a speed of 36 km/hr. It goes 56 km upstream in 1 hour 45 minutes. The time taken by it to cover the… · 2007
ABC26GN3818 · Speed of a boat in standing water is 9 kmph and the speed of the stream is 1.5 kmph. A man rows to a place at a distance of 105 km and…
ABC26GN3819 · The speed of a boat in still water is 15 km/hr and the rate of current is 3 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 12 minutes is :
ABC26GN3820 · A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of current is 1 kmph and it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and come back, how… · 2004
ABC26GN3821 · A boat takes 19 hours for travelling downstream from point A to point B and coming back to a point C midway between A and B. If the…
ABC26GN3822 · P, Q and R are three towns on a river which flows uniformly. Q is equidistant from P and R. I row from P to Q and back in 10 hours and I… · 2005
ABC26GN3823 · A man can row 9 1/3 kmph in still water and finds that it takes him thrice as much time to row up than as to row down the same distance in…
ABC26GN3824 · A boat takes 8 hours to cover a distance while travelling upstream, whereas while travelling downstream it takes 6 hours. If the speed of… · 2006
ABC26GN3826 · The speed of a boat in still water is 10 km/hr. If it can travel 26 km downstream and 14 km upstream in the same time, the speed of the…
ABC26GN3827 · A boat takes 90 minutes less to travel 36 miles downstream than to travel the same distance upstream. If the speed of the boat in still…
ABC26GN3828 · A man rows to a place 48 km distant and back in 14 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km with the stream in the same time as 3 km against… · 2005
ABC26GN3829 · A boat covers 24 km upstream and 36 km downstream in 6 hours while it covers 36 km upstream and 24 km downstream in 6 1/2 hours. The…
ABC26GN3830 · A boat goes 30 km upstream and 44 km downstream in 10 hours. In 13 hours, it can go 40 km upstream and 55 km downstream. The speed of the… · 2008
ABC26GN3831 · At his usual rowing rate, Rahul can travel 12 miles downstream in a certain river in 6 hours less than it takes him to travel the same… · 2001
ABC26GN3833 · A man wishes to cross a river perpendicularly. In still water he takes 4 minutes to cross the river, but in flowing river he takes 5… · 2004
ABC26GN3834 · A man can row upstream at 10 kmph and downstream at 18 kmph. Find the man's rate in still water? · 2014
ABC26GN3835 · A man takes 2.2 times as long to row a distance upstream as to row the same distance downstream. If he can row 55 km downstream in 2 hours… · 2015
ABC26GN3836 · Boat A travels downstream from Point X to Point Y in 3 hours less than the time taken by Boat B to travel upstream from Point Y to Point Z…
ABC26GN3838 · A boat can travel 36 km upstream in 5 hours. If the speed of the stream is 2.4 kmph, how much time will the boat take to cover a distance…