BOAT & STREAM 2023

ASSIGNMENT
1. A man can row upstream at 6 km/hr and 8. The speed of boat is 15 km/hr. A boat takes
downstream at 10 km/hr. Find man’s rate in still double time in moving a certain distance
water. upstream than downstream. What is the speed of
(a) 10 (b) 6 stream?
(c) 5 (d) 8 (a) 8 (b) 6
(c) 5 (d) 4
2. A man can row upstream at 8 km/hr and
downstream at 12 km/hr. Find the rate of the 9. The current of a stream runs at 1 km/hr. A
current. boat goes 35 km upstream and back again to the
(a) 4 (b) 6 starting point in 12 hours. The speed of the boat
(c) 2 (d) 3 in still water is:
(a) 8 (b) 4
3. A man rows 30 km downstream and 15 km up (c) 2 (d) 6
stream, talking 5 hours each time. What is
velocity of the current? 10. A boat running downstream covers a
(a) 4 (b) 1.5 distance of 10 km in 2 hours. While coming
(c) 2 (d) 3 back upstream the boat takes 5 hours to cover
the same distance. If the speed of the current is
4. A boat takes half time in moving a certain 1.5 km/h, what is the speed of the boat in still
distance downstream than upstream. What is water?
ratio between rate in still water and rate of (a) 2.5 km/hr (b) 3.5 km/hr
current? (c) 4.5 km/hr (d) None
(a) 1:2 (b) 3:1
(c) 2:1 (d) 1:3 11. A boat is rowed downstream at 15.5 km/hr
and upstream at 8.5 km/hr. The speed of the
5. The current of a stream runs at 2 km/hr. A stream is:
boat takes half times in moving a certain (a) 3.5 km/h (b) 5.75 km/hr
distance downstream than upstream. What is (c) 6.5 km/h (d) 7 km/h
speed boat in still water is:
(a) 8 (b) 6 12. A boat covers a distance of 30 km in 2½ hrs
(c) 2 (d) 4 running downstream. While returning, it covers
the same distance in 3¾ hrs. What is the speed
6. the current of a stream runs at 4 km/hr. A boat of the boat in still water?
takes three times in moving a certain distance (a) 8 km/h (b) 12 km/h
upstream than downstream. What is the speed of (c) 14 km/h (d)10 km/h
the boat in still water is:
(a) 8 (b) 6 13. The current of a stream runs at 2 km/hr. A
(c) 5 (d) 4 boat goes 60 km upstream and back again to the
starting point in 16 hours. The speed of the boat
7. The speed of boat is 12 km/hr. A boat takes in still water is:
three time in moving a certain distance upstream (a) 12 (b) 6
than downstream. What is the speed of stream? (c) 8 (d) 4
(a) 8 (b) 6
(c) 5 (d) 4

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14. A boatman goes 2 km against the current of km/hour, the time taken by the man to swim the
stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the same distance upstream is
current in 10 minutes. How long will he take to (a) 1 h 30 min (b) 45 min
go 5 km in stationary water? (c) 2 h 30 min (d) 3 h
(a) 40 min (b) 1 hour
(c) 1 hr 15 min (d) 1 hr 30 min 21. A boat travels 24 km upstream in 6 hours
and 20 km downstream in 4 hours. Then the
15. The speed of a boat along the stream is 12 speed of boat in still water and the speed of
km/hr and against the stream is 8 km/hr. The water current are respectively
time taken by the boat to sail 24 km in still (a) 4 km/h and 3 km/h
water is (b) 4.5 km/h and 0.5 km/h
(a) 2 hrs (b) 3 hrs (c) 4 km/h and 2 km/h
(c) 2.4 hrs (d) 1.2 hrs (d) 5 km/h and 2 km/h

16. Speed of a boat is 5 km per hour in still 22. If a boat goes 100 km down-stream in 10
water and the speed of the stream is 3 km per hours and 75 km upstream in 15 hours, then the
hour. If the boat takes 3 hours to go to a place speed of the stream is
and come back, distance of place is: (a) 2 km/h (b) 2.5 km/h
(a) 3.75 km (b) 4 km (c) 3 km/h (d) 3.5
(c) 4.8 km (d) 4.25 m
23. Speed of motorboat in still water is 45
17. A man goes downstream with a boat to km/h. If the motorboat travels 80 km along the
some destination and returns upstream to his stream in 1 hour 20 minutes, then the time taken
original place in 5 hours. If the speed of the boat by it to cover the same distance against the
in still water and the stream are 10 km/hr and 4 stream will be
km/hr respectively, distance of the destination (a) 3 hours
from the starting place is (b) 1 hour 20 minutes
(a) 16 km (b) 18 km (c) 2 hours 40 minutes
(c) 21 km (d) 25 km (d) 2 hours 55 minutes

18. The speed of a motor-boat is that of the 24. A boat goes 24 km upstream and 35 km
current of water as 36 : 5. The boat goes along downstream in 9 hours. It goes 30 km upstream
with the current in 5 hours 10 minutes. It will and 21 km downstream in 8 hours. The speed of
come back in the boat in still water is:
(a) 5 h 50 min (b) 6 h (a) 8 (b) 6
(c) 6 h 50 min (d) 12 h 10 min (c) 12 (d) 6.5

19. A boy can swim in still water at a speed of 25. A boat goes 30 km upstream and 44 km
10 km/hr. If the speed of the current would have downstream in 10 hours. It goes 40 km upstream
been 5 km/h, then the boy could swim 60 km. and 55 km downstream in 13 hours. The speed
(a) upstream in 4 hrs of the boat in still water is:
(b) downstream in 12 hrs (a) 8 (b) 6
(c) upstream in 6 hrs (c) 12 (d) 6.5
(d) downstream in 4 hrs
26. The speed of a boat in still water is 15
20. A man swims downstream a distance of 15 km/hr. It can go 30 km upstream and return
km in 1 hour. If the speed of the current is 5 downstream to the original point in 4 hrs 30
min. The speed of stream is:

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(a) 5 km/hr (b) 8 km/hr

(c) 10 km/h (d) 15 km/h

27. The current of a stream runs at rate of 4 km

an hour. A boat goes 6 km and comes back to
the starting point in 2 hours. The speed of the
boat in still water is:
(a) 6 km/h (b) 8 km/h
(c) 7.5 km/h (d) 6.8 km/h

28. A boat covers 12 km upstream and 18 km

downstream in 3 hours, while it covers 36 km
upstream and 24 km downstream in 6 hrs 30
min. What is speed of the current?
(a) 1.5 km/h (b) 1 km/h
(c) 2 km/h (d) 2.5 km/h

ANSWER KEY
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
d c b b b a b c d b
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
a d c c c c c c d d
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
b b c d a a b c