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A man can swim with speed of $3 m/s$ in still water. He wants to cross a river of width $600 m$ which is flowing with speed $5 m/s$ . Minimum time taken by the man to cross the river will be

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Minimum time to cross the river
$t_{min} = \frac{w}{v_{b/r}}$
$= \frac{600 m}{3 m/s} = 200 second$

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