A motor boat heads upstream a distance o...

A motor boat heads upstream a distance of 24 km in a river whose current is running at 3 km per hour. The trip up and back takes 6 hours. Assuming that the motor boat maintained a constant speed, what was its speed in still water?

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9 kmph

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