Asked by Anonymous

A swimmer is capable of swimming 1.00 m/s in still water.
If she aims her body directly across a 150-m-wide river whose current is 0.80 m/s, how far downstream (from a point opposite her starting point) will she land?
Answered by drwls
Her time to cross will be T = 150/0.8 seconds. During that time, she will drift downstream by 0.80 T meters.

Do the numbers.
Answered by Reiny
I see two similar triangles, her distance downstream as x m

x/.8 = 150/1
x = 120
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