Question
A man rows to a place 35 km in distance and back in 10 hours 30 minutes. He found that he could row 5 km with the stream at the same time as he could go 4km against the stream to find the rate of flow of the stream.
Solution
Let speed of man and stream is B, S. Then travelling distance is same time= 
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