A FLOWING TIDE.
Two boats with slow mechanical speed started off together from the same point, one of them, "X," proceeding down stream with the tide, whilst the other, "V," travelled in a direct opposite course, the respective routes being south and north. At-tho end of-three arid three-quarter minutes the 'two boats were, exactly eleven hundred yards apart, when "X" turned and followed in the same direction as the other beat., At the expiration of twelve and a half minutes from the moment Nthat "X" turned back, the total distance covered by the two craft was three times as much as the fosr merly-montioned distance. Assuming that the boats as well _as the tide maintained their own individual speeds throughout, the latter in the one direction, can'the reader say at what rate the stream flowed, taking for granted that there was no perceptible delay in turning "X" boat north?
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1931, Page 9
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149A FLOWING TIDE. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1931, Page 9
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