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This section includes 96 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Boats & Streams knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
A man takes twice as long to row a distance against the stream as to row the same distance in favour of the stream. The ratio of the speed of the boat in still water and stream is |
| A. | 3:1 |
| B. | 1:3 |
| C. | 2:4 |
| D. | 4:2 |
| Answer» B. 1:3 | |
| 2. |
If Rahul rows 15 km upstream in 3 hours and 21 km downstream in 3 hours, then the speed of the stream is |
| A. | 5 km/hr |
| B. | 4 km/hr |
| C. | 2 km/hr |
| D. | 1 km/hr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
A man rows 750 m in 675 seconds against the stream and returns in 7 and half minutes. His rowing speed in still water is |
| A. | 4 kmph |
| B. | 5 kmph |
| C. | 6 kmph |
| D. | 7 kmph |
| Answer» C. 6 kmph | |
| 4. |
If a boat goes 7 km upstream in 42 minutes and the speed of the stream is 3 kmph, then the speed of the boat in still water is |
| A. | 12 kmph |
| B. | 13 kmph |
| C. | 14 kmph |
| D. | 15 kmph |
| Answer» C. 14 kmph | |
| 5. |
A motorboat, whose speed in 15 km/hr in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in a total of 4 hours 30 minutes. The speed of the stream (in km/hr) is |
| A. | 2 km/hr |
| B. | 3 km/hr |
| C. | 4 km/hr |
| D. | 5 km/hr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
In one hour, a boat goes 11km along the stream and 5 km against it. Find the speed of the boat in still water |
| A. | 6 |
| B. | 7 |
| C. | 8 |
| D. | 9 |
| Answer» D. 9 | |
| 7. |
A man can row a boat three quarters of a kilometer in 11.25 minutes. What is the speed of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 2 kmph |
| B. | 5 kmph |
| C. | 4 kmph |
| D. | 3 kmph |
| Answer» D. 3 kmph | |
| 8. |
If a man rows at the rate of 5 kmph in still water and his rate against the current is 3.5 kmph. then the man's rate along the current is |
| A. | 4.25 kmph |
| B. | 6 kmph |
| C. | 6.5 kmph |
| D. | 8.5 kmph |
| Answer» D. 8.5 kmph | |
| 9. |
A man takes 3 hours 45 minutes to row a boat 15 km downstream of a river and 2 hours 30 minutes to cover a distance of 5 km upstream. Find the speed of the current. |
| A. | 1 km/hr |
| B. | 2 km/hr |
| C. | 3 km/hr |
| D. | 4 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 2 km/hr | |
| 10. |
A man can row upstream 10 kmph and downstream 20 kmph. Find the man rate in still water and rate of the stream. |
| A. | 0,5 |
| B. | 5,5 |
| C. | 15,5 |
| D. | 10,5 |
| Answer» D. 10,5 | |
| 11. |
A man can row at 5 kmph in still water. If the velocity of the current is 1 kmph and it takes him 1 hour to row to a place and come back. how far is that place. |
| A. | .4 km |
| B. | 1.4 km |
| C. | 2.4 km |
| D. | 3.4 km |
| Answer» D. 3.4 km | |
| 12. |
A boat can travel with a speed of 16 km/hr in still water. If the rate of stream is 5 km/hr, then find the time taken by the boat to cover distance of 84 km downstream. |
| A. | 4 hours |
| B. | 5 hours |
| C. | 6 hours |
| D. | 7 hours |
| Answer» B. 5 hours | |
| 13. |
A man's speed with the current is 20 kmph and speed of the current is 3 kmph. The Man's speed against the current will be |
| A. | 11 kmph |
| B. | 12 kmph |
| C. | 14 kmph |
| D. | 17 kmph |
| Answer» D. 17 kmph | |
| 14. |
Sahil can row 3 km against the stream in 20 minutes and he can return in 18 minutes. What is rate of current ? |
| A. | 1/2 km/hr |
| B. | 1/3 km/hr |
| C. | 2 km/hr |
| D. | 4 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 1/3 km/hr | |
| 15. |
The speed of a boat in still water is 15 km/hr and the rate of current is 3 km/hr. The distance travelled downstream in 12 minutes is |
| A. | 1.6 km |
| B. | 2 km |
| C. | 3.6 km |
| D. | 4 km |
| Answer» D. 4 km | |
| 16. |
The speed of a boat in still water is 20 km/hr and the rate of current is 5 km/hr. The distance traveled downstream in 12 minutes is: |
| A. | 1.8 km |
| B. | 7 km |
| C. | 5 km |
| D. | 3 km |
| Answer» D. 3 km | |
| 17. |
If upstream speed is 22 km/hr and downstream speed is 34 km/hr, what is speed of boat in still water? |
| A. | 28 km/hr |
| B. | 56 km/hr |
| C. | 17 km/hr |
| D. | 11 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 56 km/hr | |
| 18. |
Raj swims 26 km downstream in same time as 14 km upstream. What is his speed in still water if speed of stream is 3 km/hr? |
| A. | 10 km/hr |
| B. | 12 km/hr |
| C. | 7 km/hr |
| D. | 4 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 12 km/hr | |
| 19. |
In 10 hours Mayur rows 30 kms upstream and 44 kms downstream. Also he travels 40 kms upstream and 55 kms downstream in 13 hours. What is speed of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 3 km/hr |
| B. | 8 km/hr |
| C. | 11 km/hr |
| D. | 16 km/hr |
| Answer» C. 11 km/hr | |
| 20. |
Guddi s swimming speed in still water to the speed of river is 7:1. She swims 4.2 km up the river in just 14 min. How much time will Guddi take to swim 18.4 km down the river? |
| A. | 46 minutes |
| B. | 12 minutes |
| C. | 23 minutes |
| D. | 11 minutes |
| Answer» B. 12 minutes | |
| 21. |
Michel can swim in still water at the rate of 6km per hour. After swimming in a stream, she realized that she takes twice the time to go upstream as she takes to go downstream. What is speed of the current? |
| A. | 2.25 km/hr |
| B. | 2 km/hr |
| C. | 4 km/hr |
| D. | 1.5 km/hr |
| Answer» C. 4 km/hr | |
| 22. |
The speed of a motor boat is that of the current of water as 36:5. The boat goes along with the current in 5 hours 10 min, it will come back in? |
| A. | 5hrs 50 min |
| B. | 6 hours |
| C. | 6 hours 50 min |
| D. | 12 hours 10 min |
| Answer» D. 12 hours 10 min | |
| 23. |
A man can row three-quarters of a kilometre against the stream in 11 minutes and down the stream in 7 minutes. The speed (in km/hr) of the man in still water is: |
| A. | 2 |
| B. | 3 |
| C. | 4 |
| D. | 5 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
A man can row 9 1/3 km/hr in still water and he finds that is thrice as much time to row u p than as to row down the same distance in river. The speed of the current is: |
| A. | 3 1/3 km/hr |
| B. | 3 1/9 km/hr |
| C. | 1 km/hr |
| D. | 4 2/3 km/hr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
A boat travels upstream from B to A and downstream from A to B in 3 hours. If the speed of the boat in still water is 9km/hr and the speed of the current is 3km/hr, the distance A and B is: |
| A. | 4km |
| B. | 6 km |
| C. | 8 km |
| D. | 12 km |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
The speed of a boat in still water is 2km/hr. If its speed upstream be 1km/hr then speed of the stream is |
| A. | 1.5km/hr |
| B. | 3km/hr |
| C. | 1km/hr |
| D. | none |
| Answer» D. none | |
| 27. |
A boat takes half time in moving a certain distance downstream than upstream. What is the ratio between the rate in still water and rate of current? |
| A. | 1 : 2 |
| B. | 3 : 1 |
| C. | 2 : 1 |
| D. | 1 : 3 |
| Answer» C. 2 : 1 | |
| 28. |
A man can row 7 kms on hour in still water and he finds that it takes hi twice as long to row down the river. The rate of stream is |
| A. | 2.4km/hr |
| B. | 2.5 km/hr |
| C. | 3.4km/hr |
| D. | 3.5km/hr |
| Answer» C. 3.4km/hr | |
| 29. |
A boatman goes 2 km against the current of the stream in 1 hour and goes 1 km along the current in 10 minutes. How long will he take to go 5km in stationery water? |
| A. | 40 Minutes |
| B. | 1 Hour |
| C. | 1 hr 15 Min |
| D. | 1 Hr 30 Min |
| Answer» D. 1 Hr 30 Min | |
| 30. |
A man can row three-quarters of a kilometer against the stream in 11 minutes and return in 7 minutes. The speed of the man in still water is? |
| A. | 2km/hr |
| B. | 3km/hr |
| C. | 4 km/hr |
| D. | 5 km/hr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
A boat goes 6 km in an hour in still water. It takes thrice as much time in covering the same distance against the current. Speed of the current is? |
| A. | 2 km/hr |
| B. | 3km/hr |
| C. | |
| D. | D. |
| Answer» D. D. | |
| 32. |
A boat running upstream takes 8 hours 48 min to cover a certain distance while it takes 4 hours to cover the same distance running downstream. What is the ratio between the speed of the boat and the speed of water current respectively? |
| A. | 2 : 1 |
| B. | 3 : 1 |
| C. | 8 : 3 |
| D. | Cannot be determined |
| Answer» D. Cannot be determined | |
| 33. |
In a river, a man takes 3 hours in rowing 3 km upstream or 15 km downstream. What is the speed of the current? |
| A. | 2km/hr |
| B. | 4km/hr |
| C. | 6km/hr |
| D. | 9km/hr |
| Answer» B. 4km/hr | |
| 34. |
A man can row at 5 km/hr in still water, if the river is running at 1 km/hr it takes him 75 minutes to row to a place and back. How far is the place? |
| A. | 2.5km |
| B. | 3km |
| C. | 4 km |
| D. | 5 km |
| Answer» C. 4 km | |
| 35. |
The speed of a boat in still water is 5 km/hr, it can go 30km upstream and return downstream to the original point in 4 hours 30 min. The speed of the stream is? |
| A. | 5km/hr |
| B. | 8 km/hr |
| C. | 10 km/hr |
| D. | 15 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 8 km/hr | |
| 36. |
A steamer goes downstream from one port to another in 4 hours, it covers the same distance upstream in 5 hours. If the speed of the stream is 2km/hr,the distance between the two parts is? |
| A. | 50km |
| B. | 60km |
| C. | 70km |
| D. | 80 km |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
A boat covers a distance of 30 km in 2 hours running downstream while returning it covers the same distance in 3 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 8km/hr |
| B. | 12km/hr |
| C. | 14 km/hr |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
A boat goes 24 km downstream in 10 hours, it takes 2 hours more to cover the same distance against the stream. What is the speed of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 2km/hr |
| B. | 2.8 km/hr |
| C. | 4 km/hr |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
A boat running downstream covers 24 km's in 4 hours while for covering the same distance upstream it takes 6 hours whats the speed of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 3.5km/hr |
| B. | 5.5 km/hr |
| C. | 6 km/hr |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
The speed at which a man can row a boat in still water is 15 kmph. If he rows downstream, where the speed of current is 3 kmph, what time will he take to cover 60 metres? |
| A. | 10 seconds |
| B. | 15 seconds |
| C. | 20 seconds |
| D. | 12 seconds |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
A boat is rowed downstream at 15.5km/hr and upstream at 8.5 km/hr. The speed of the stream is? |
| A. | 3.5km/hr |
| B. | 5.75km/hr |
| C. | 6.5km/hr |
| D. | 7km/hr |
| Answer» B. 5.75km/hr | |
| 42. |
A man can row downstream at 18 kmph and upstream at 10 kmph. Find the speed of the man in still water and the speed of stream respectively? |
| A. | 13, 3 |
| B. | 12, 6 |
| C. | 15, 3 |
| D. | 14, 4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
A person can row at 9 kmph and still water. He takes 4 1/2 hours to row from A to B and back. What is the distance between A and B if the speed of the stream is 1 kmph? |
| A. | 32 km |
| B. | 25 km |
| C. | 28 km |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
A man can row 30 km downstream and 20 km upstream in 4 hours. He can row 45 km downstream and 40 km upstream in 7 hours. Find the speed of man in still water? |
| A. | 15 kmph |
| B. | 10 kmph |
| C. | 12 kmph |
| D. | 12.5 kmph |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
The speed of a boat in still water is 60kmph and the speed of the current is 20kmph. Find the speed downstream and upstream? |
| A. | 35, 25 kmph |
| B. | 80, 40 kmph |
| C. | 40, 60 kmph |
| D. | 50, 55 kmph |
| Answer» C. 40, 60 kmph | |
| 46. |
The current of a stream at 1 kmph. A motor boat goes 35 km upstream and back to the starting point in 12 hours. The speed of the motor boat in still water is? |
| A. | 6 kmph |
| B. | 7 kmph |
| C. | 8.5 kmph |
| D. | 8 kmph |
| Answer» B. 7 kmph | |
| 47. |
The time taken by a man to row his boat upstream is twice the time taken by him to row the same distance downstream. If the speed of the boat in still water is 42 kmph, find the speed of the stream? |
| A. | 12 kmph |
| B. | 13 kmph |
| C. | 14 kmph |
| D. | 15 kmph |
| Answer» D. 15 kmph | |
| 48. |
The speed of a boat in upstream is 60 kmph and the speed of the boat downstream is 80 kmph. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the stream? |
| A. | 70, 10 kmph |
| B. | 35, 27 kmph |
| C. | 50, 60 kmph |
| D. | 45, 55 kmph |
| Answer» B. 35, 27 kmph | |
| 49. |
A man rows his boat 85 km downstream and 45 km upstream, taking 2 1/2 hours each time. Find the speed of the stream? |
| A. | 5 kmph |
| B. | 6 kmph |
| C. | 7 kmph |
| D. | 8 kmph |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
A man can row a boat at 20 kmph in still water. If the speed of the stream is 6 kmph, what is the time taken to row a distance of 60 km downstream? |
| A. | 20/6 hours |
| B. | 27/2 hours |
| C. | 30 hours |
| D. | 30/13 hours |
| Answer» E. | |