The speed of the current is 40.34 mph approximately.
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Given, a man can drive a motorboat 70 miles down the Colorado River in the same amount of time that he can drive 40 miles upstream.
We have to find the speed of the current if the speed of the boat is 11 mph in still water. Now, let the speed of river be a mph. Then, speed of boat in upstream will be a-11 mph and speed in downstream will be a+11 mph.
And, we know that,
We are given that, time taken for both are same. So
Answer:
60 degrees
Step-by-step explanation:
To first solve this problem, we need to figure out the size of an interior angle for a regular hexagon.
This can be done with the formula :
, with n being the number of sides
A hexagon has 6 sides so here is how we would solve for the interior angle:
, with n= 6 sides
Now that we know that each interior angle in the hexagon is 120 degrees, we can now turn our attention to the rhombus.
The opposite angles of the rhombus are congruent, so the two larger obtuse angles are congruent, and so are the two smaller acute angles.
It is also important to note that a rhombus is a quadrilateral, so all of its interior angles add up to 360 degrees.
Looking at the rhombus, we already know one of the angles because it is shared by the interior angle of the hexagon, so the two larger angles in the rhombus are both 120 degrees.
But what about the smaller angles? All we need to do is subtract the two larger angles form 360 and divide by 2 to find the angle.
, so the smaller angle in the rhombus is 60 degrees.
Now that we know both the interior angle and smaller angle of the rhombus, we can find x.
Together, angle x and the angle adjacent to it makes up an interior angle of the hexagon, so x plus that angle is going to equal to 120 degrees.
All we need to do is solve for x:
x = 60 degrees