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Your family decides to go on a 5 hour cruise down a river. The boat goes...

Your family decides to go on a 5 hour cruise down a river. The boat goes 25 km upstream and back downstream. The river has a current of 4 km an hour. What is the boat's speed and how long was the upstream journey?

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