A boat travelling at 6 m/s heads due north across a 106 meter wide river. If the east flowing current in the river is 2.5 m/s,to the nearest meter, how far east of it's starting position is the boat when it reaches the north shore?

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A boat travelling at 6 m/s heads due north across a 106 meter wide river. If the east flowing current in the river is 2.5 m/s,to the nearest meter, how far east of it's starting position is the boat when it reaches the north shore?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-15T11:34:53

$44.17$ meters

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The boat travels across the water at $6$ m/s and will therefore cross $106$ m in $106/6$ seconds $= 53/3$ seconds
In that time the water travels $5/2*53/3$ meters $=265/6$ meters

The boat therefore lands $44.17$ meters east of its starting position.

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