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
In question 2
The second line of equation would be 54 = 108 + 10a
get the rest from that
It's a virtual force ... one that seems to be there but isn't really there.
When something tries to fly or flow straight, through a rotating neighborhood, it ends up flying or flowing in a curved path, AS IF there were a force acting on it to make it curve. THAT apparent force is the Coriolis force.
It's what makes air, flowing away from high pressure or into low pressure, form the big rotating pressure systems on the rotating Earth.