You want to swim from one side of a river to another side. Assume your speed is three miles per hour in the west direction, with negligible water velocity. When you reach a certain point, you will encounter water flow with a velocity of 6.2 miles per hour in the north direction. What is your resultant speed and direction

speed = 6.71 mph and angle is 71.2 degree.

Explanation:

speed of person, u = 3 miles per hour

speed of water, v = 6 miles per hour

Resultant speed

The angle from the west is

tan A = 6/2 = 3

A = 71.6 degree

it has to be b, about 97 percent.

when jerome paddle in flowing river towards east the net speed of jerome will increase

so the net speed of jerome will be given as

now the speed of paul will be same as it is given as he is running on the ground

so

so here we can say since the speed of jerome is more so he will win the race

now as we know the distance so the time difference is given as

so jerome will reach first and the time difference will be 203.55 s or 3.4 min