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A man crosses a 320 tn wide river perpen-dicular to the current in 4 min. If in stillwater he can swim with a speed 5/3 timesthat of the current, then the speed of thcurrent in m/min is43.t 4

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Let the velocity of swimmer = V(s)

Let the velocity of current = V(w)

width of river = 320 m

time taken to cover the river = 4 minute

the swimmer swims in -ve direction so that the resultant velocity would be perpendicular to the river velocity .

so the resultant velocity or V(sw) has two components

V(sw) sinФ in the perpendicular

V(sw) cosФ in the base direction

As we know V(sw) sinФ = V(w)

Also V(sw) cosФ = V(s)

And

t = 320 / V(sw)cosФ

4 = 320 / V(sw)cosФ

In the question it is given that

the 5/3V(w) = V(sw)

So ,

we can write

4 = 320 / (5/3) V(w) x 4/ 5

V(w) = 320 x 3 / 4 x 4

V(w) = 20 x 3

V(w) = 60 m/min

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