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The vertical side was labeled with the speed that the river was carrying the water, and the horizontal was labeled with the speed that the man was swimming

I tried drawing a triangle and solving for the hypotenuse, proceeding by trying to use t=d/v. Where am I going wrong?

University Physics screws with me sometimes :l What was your answer?

yep

He should be swimming upwards to counter.

Well at first I imagined a man swimming across a river, then I imagined the current pulling him downwards, and so I made a triangle and tried to solve for the hypotenuse, proceeding by trying to use t=d/v, but then I realized that it shouldn't be a triangle at all because the problem states that...

Thanks

Yes, that is much more simple that I sought out the problem to be for some reason. Thanks a lot!

Why does u-v=8?

Not sure how to go about it

Thanks!

I really am confused as to how I should continue from there

I know that velocity is the change in the position of an object divided by the time, and the variables are t and c and it's asking to express t in terms of c, but what place does velocity have in this problem?

I'm really not sure as to how I should be interpreting expressing t in terms of c. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Completely new to these Forums, so I'm trying to learn as much as possible about it. Stumbled upon here through failed attempts on my physics homework. All help will be much appreciated, thanks!