It appears to be a <span>spiral shape. </span>
There is no factor on your list of choices that has any effect.
<span>length- roads, yard stick, square footage in a room</span>
Let vb be the velocity of the motorboat and let vs be the velocity of the stream.
We know that when she drives upstream the velocity is 8 m/s, in this scenario the velocities point in opposite directions, then we have the equations:

When she drives downstream the velocites point in the same direction then we have the equation:

hence we have the system of equations:

Solving the first equation for the velocity of the boat we have:

Plugging this in the second equation we have:

Therefore, the velocity of the stream is 2 m/s