OWS BANK BOAT AND STREAM

Q.1. The current of stream runs at 1 kmph. A motor boat goes 35km upstream and back again to the
starting point in 12hours. What is the speed of the motor boat in still water is?

(1) 2 km/hr

(2) 3 km/hr

(3) 4 km/hr

(4) 5 km/hr

(5) 6 km/hr

Q.2. A Boat took 3(1/2) hours less to travel a distance downstream than to travel the same distance
upstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 15 Km/hrs. and speed of a stream is 7 Km/hrs.
then find total distance travelled by boat?

(1) 36 km

(2) 52 km

(3) 44 km

(4) 66 km

(5) None of these

Q.3. Pramod rows a boat upstream a distance of 27 km in 3 hours and rows downstream a distance
of 99 km in 3 hours. What is the sum of the total time taken if Pramod rows a distance of 42 km
in still water and a distance of 66 km downstream?

(1) 2

(2) 3

(3) 5

(4) 4

(5) None of these

Q.4. A boat took a total of 2 hours to cover a distance of 7.2 km in the direction of stream and 3.2 km
in the opposite direction. It takes a total of 24 minutes to cover a distance of 1.5 km in the
direction of the stream and 600 meters in the opposite direction of the stream. Find the speed
of the boat along the stream?

(1) 2

(2) 6

(3) 4
 (4) 8

(5) None of these

Q.5. The respective ratio between the speed of the boat upstream and speed of the boat
downstream is 2: 3. What is the speed of the boat in still water if it covers 42 km downstream in
2 hours 20 minutes? (In km/h)

(1) 13.5

(2) 15

(3) 12

(4) 11

(5) 10

Q.6. A man crosses a river in a downstream through a 15 m long ship at the speed of 25 km/hr. If
that man reaches one end of the river to another end in 1.5 hours, the river is flowing at the rate
of 3km/hr the find the width of the river?

(1) 42 Km

(2) 22 Km

(3) 33 km

(4) 42.03 km

(5) None of these.

Q.7. A man can row 50 km upstream and 72 km downstream in 8 hours 36 minutes. He can also row
70 km upstream and 90 km downstream in 11 hours 30 minutes. Find the rate of stream.

(1) 15 km/hr

(2) 5 km/hr

(3) 10 km/hr

(4) 4 km/hr

(5) None of these

Q.8. A boat running upstream takes 6 hours 36 minutes to cover a certain distance, while it takes 3
hours to cover the same distance running downstream. Then find the ratio between the speed
of the boat and speed of the water respectively.

(1) 2: 1

(2) 5: 2

(3) 7: 4
 (4) 8: 3

(5) None of these

Q.9. A boat cover row 25 Km downstream in and can row the 12.5 Km distance upstream in

. By what percent speed of boat in still water is more than the speed of stream?

(1) 33.33%

(2) 16.67%

(3) 25%

(4) 66.67%

(5) None of these

Q.10. A boat can go BA (upstream) in 84 minutes. The same boat when going downstream (AB) takes 9
minutes less than what it would take in still water. How much time will it take to reach from A to
B (downstream)?

(1) 29 min

(2) 37 min

(3) 48 min

(4) 63 min

(5) 83 min

Q.11. A boat can travel 6.4 km down¬stream in 16 minutes and 8.7 km upstream in 29 minutes. What
is the total time taken by the boat to travel 36 km up¬stream and the same distance
downstream together?

(1) 3 hours 45 minutes

(2) 4 hours 11 minutes

(3) 4 hours

(4) 3 hours 30 minutes

(5) 3 hours

Q.12. A boat covers 24 km upstream and 28 km downstream in 6 hours, while it cover 30 km upstream

and 21 km downstream in hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water and speed of the
stream.
 (1) 6 km/hr.

(2) 8 km/hr.

(3) 10 km/hr.

(4) 12 km/hr.

(5) None of these

Q.13. At his usual rowing rate, Pramod can travel 6 miles downstream in a certain river in 3 hours less
than it takes him to travel the same distance upstream. But if he could double his usual rowing
rate for his 12-mile round trip, the downstream 6 miles would then take only half hour less than
the upstream 6 miles. What is the speed of the current in miles per hour?

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5) None of these

Q.14. A boat takes 630 minutes to travel From Point A to B. and then come back to Point A. The
distance between Point A and B is 72 km. If the ratio of speed of the boat in still water to the
speed of water current is 7 : 1, what is the speed of the boat downstream? (in kmph )

(1) 23

(2) 12

(3) 24

(4) 8

(5) 16

Q.15. The uniform speed of a motorboat in upstream is 12 km per hour and its downstream speed is
18 km per hour. The motorboat goes from point P to point Q in upstream and returns the same
distance in downstream. What is its average speed of the entire journey? (the speed of the
motorboat and stream was uniform during the entire journey)

(1) 14.4

(2) 12.8
 (3) 14.2

(4) 12.4

(5) None of these

Q.16. There is a road beside a river. Two friends started from a place A, moved to a temple situated at
another place B and then returned to A again. One of them moves on a cycle at a speed of 6
km/hr, while the other sails on a boat at a speed of 8 km/hr. If the river flows at the speed of 6
km/hr, which of the two friends will return to place A first?

(1) Cyclist

(2) Sailor

(3) Both come at same point

(4) Any other

(5) None of these

Q.17. A man rowed against a stream flowing 1.5 km/h to a certain point and then turned back,
stopping 2 km short of the place from where he originally started (i.e. he took a short cut in
downstream journey which saves his 2 km). If the whole time occupied in rowing be 2 hr 10 min
and his uniform speed in still water be 4.5 km/h then the man went up the stream for a distance
of?

(1) 4 km

(2) 8 km

(3) 7 km

(4) 5 km

(5) 6 km

Q.18. Two boats A and B start towards each other from two places, 175 km apart. Speed of the boats
A and B in still water are 12 km/h and 18 km/h respectively. If A proceeds downstream and B
upstream, they will meet after how much time?

(1) 4 hours 30 mins

(2) 4 hours 48 min

(3) 5 hours 20 min

(4) 5 hours 50 min

(5) Cannot be determined

Q.19. Sangram goes downstream with a boat to some destination and returns upstream to his original
places in 6 hours. If the speed of the boat in the still water and then stream are 12 km/h and 5
km/h respectively, then find the distance of the destination from the starting position.
 (1) 25

(2) 26.67

(3) 33

(4) 29.75

(5) 20

Q.20. The speed of Boat in still water is 35Km/h and speed of the stream is 15km/h. The distance
between Gomatinagar and Ghazipur is 800km. The boat started travelling in downstream from
Gomatinagar to Ghazipur and in the midway, it is powered by an engine due to which the speed
of boat increased. Now boat reached Ghazipur and starts back to Gomatinagar with help of the
same engine. Total time taken in entire journey is 29 hours. Then find the increment in speed of
boat due to this engine.

(1) 30 km/h

(2) 28 km/h

(3) 40 km/h

(4) 35 km/h

(5) None of these

Q.21. A man can row 17 kmph in still water and the river is running at 5 kmph. If the man takes 17 hr
to row to go a place and back, how far is the place? (in km)

(1) 140

(2) 121

(3) 135

(4) 120

(5) None of these

Q.22. The speed of boat A is 2 km/h less than the speed of the boat B. The time taken by boat A to
travel a distance of 20 km downstream is 30 min more than time taken by B to travel the same
distance downstream. If the speed of the current is 1/3rd of the speed of the boat A, what is the
speed of boat B ? (in km/h)

(1) 4

(2) 6

(3) 12

(4) 10

(5) 8
Q.23. A motorboat whose speed in still water is 24km/hr , takes 1 hour more to go 32 km upstream
than to return downstream to the same point . Find the speed of stream in km/hr and time
taken in hour to cover 192km in down stream?

(1) 32, 2

(2) 8, 6

(3) 6,6.4

(4) 18,4.5

(5) None of these

Q.24. Speed of a boat in still water is three times the speed of the stream. Time taken by the boat to
travel 180 Km downstream is 9 hours. Find the respective ratio of the time taken by the boat to
travel 80 Km downstream and 50 Km upstream?

(1) 5:6

(2) 4:5

(3) 3:4

(4) 2:3

(5) None of these

Q.25. Two boats in two parallel canals started at the same time in the same direction from the same
place. One is travelling upstream and the other is travelling downstream. If both the boats reach
the finish line at the same time, the boat speed in still water of upstream travelling 'x' and the
speed boat in still water of downstream travelling boat 'y' if the speed of the stream in both
canals is 10 km/hr and the sum of their speeds is 40km/hr. The possible value of x and y

a) 30 , 20

b) 30, 10

c) 20 ,10

d) 10 , 20

(1) Only a

(2) Both a, and b

(3) All a, b and C

(4) Only b

(5) All a, b, c, and d