 Find the circumference of each wheel. 60. A person rows from Cambridge to Ely (a distance of 20 miles) and back again in 10 hours, and finds he can row 2 miles against the stream in the same time that he rows 3 miles with it. Find the rate of the stream,...  A Treatise on Elementary Algebra - Page 273by James Hamblin Smith - 1869Full view - About this book
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