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Math HW, please help:

At its maximum speed, a motorboat can travel 10 miles downstream on a river in 20 minutes. It takes 30 minutes for the boat to travel back upstream the same 10 miles, also at maximum speed.
Write a system of two equations that could be used to find the maximum speed of the motorboat in still water. Let b represent the maximum speed of the motorboat in miles per hour and let r represent the speed of the river's current in miles per hour. Convert the times into hours. Solve the system of equations for b and r to determine the boat's maximum speed in still water and the speed of the river's current.

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this is wayyyy to wordy to figure out. I’d check with your teacher about this question.
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What is 76+80000000000000000????? I need to know
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