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Ben's boat will take 1 and a half hours to go 12 miles up a river than to return. What is the rate of his boat if the rate of the current is 2 miles an hour?
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Ben's boat will take 1 and a half hours to go 12 miles up a river than to return. What is the rate of his boat if the rate of the current is 2 miles an hour?

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is he driving with or against the current???

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I'm pretty sure you'd set up a proportion:
1.5/x = 12/2
x= 4

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