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a paddle boat can move at a speed of 14 km/h in still water. the boat is paddled 16 km downstream in a river in the same time it takes to go 8km upstream. what is the speed of the river?

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evidently the downstream speed is twice as fast as the upstream speed. So,

14+x = 2(14-x)

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