{"id":165208,"date":"2024-03-22T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=165208"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:56:47","slug":"a-boat-moves-downstream-at-the-rate-of-1-km-in-7-5-minutes-and-upstream-at-the-rate-of-5-km-an-hour-find-the-speed-of-boat-in-still-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-boat-moves-downstream-at-the-rate-of-1-km-in-7-5-minutes-and-upstream-at-the-rate-of-5-km-an-hour-find-the-speed-of-boat-in-still-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A boat moves downstream at the rate of 1 km in 7.5 minutes and upstream at the rate of 5 km an hour. Find the speed of boat in still water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A boat moves downstream at the rate of 1 km in 7.5 minutes and upstream at the rate of 5 km an hour. Find the speed of boat in still water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.5 km\/h<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6.5 km\/h<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7.00 km\/h<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.00 km\/h<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speed of boat in still water = xkm\/h (say) and that of stream = y km\/h<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-1024x451.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165210\" style=\"width:221px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-1024x451.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-767x338.png 767w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-1536x677.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-2048x902.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-341x150.png 341w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-100x44.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-795x350.png 795w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213-788x347.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-213.png 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>= 6.5 km\/h<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat moves downstream at the rate of 1 km in 7.5 minutes and upstream at the rate of 5 km an hour. Find the speed of boat in still water. a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.5 km\/h b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6.5 km\/h c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7.00 km\/h d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8.00 km\/h Sol: Speed of boat in still water = xkm\/h (say) and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":165209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"class_list":["post-165208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165211,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165208\/revisions\/165211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}