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A boat takes 9 hours more to cover 270 km upstream than to travel 180 km downstream. If the speed of the boat is ‘4x’ km/hr and the speed of the stream is ‘x’ km/hr, find
x.

A 2

B 6

C 10

D 7

E None of these

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