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(II) A swimmer is capable of swimming 0.60 m/s in still
water. (a) If she aims her body directly across a 45-m-wide
river whose current is 0.50 m/s ,how far downstream (from
a point opposite her starting point) will she land? (b) How
long will it take her to reach the other side?
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