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    Undergrad How Can I Solve This Illogical Math Problem on Boat Traveling and Crosscurrent?

    Thank you for your quick response. I remember a while back I was reading a physics book on vectors (which I had forgotten until you re-explained it to me here) and it had a similar boat problem, and explained how to solve it. Now I understand the original problem, thank you very much for...
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    Undergrad How Can I Solve This Illogical Math Problem on Boat Traveling and Crosscurrent?

    Hi, I'm a sophomore in high school at the moment so I don't know much math, however it is my favorite subject..but anyways today we were doing reviews for our EOC (end of course) test for in my geometry class and I came across a funny problem. I want to ask you if this problem makes sense the...