Question

A motorboat travels 48 miles down a river in the same time it takes to travel 32 miles up the river. If the rate of the current is 4 miles per hour that is the rate of the boat still water?
If the speed is x, then since time = distance/speed,

48/(x+4) = 32/(x-4)
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