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A man swims across a river with speed of ` 5 km h^(-1)` ( in still water). While a boat goes upstream with speed ` 12 km h^(-1)` ( in still water). How fast and in which direction does, the man appear to go to the boatman ? Given that the speed of flowing water is ` 2 km h^(-1)`

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