A boat takes 2 hours to travel downstream a river from port A to port B, and 3 hours to return to port A. Another boat takes a total of 6 hours to tra...

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A boat takes 2 hours to travel downstream a river from port A to port B, and 3 hours to return to port A. Another boat takes a total of 6 hours to travel from port B to port A and return to port B. If the speeds of the boats and the river are constant, then the time, in hours, taken by the slower boat to travel from port A to port B is:

Options

A.
3(35)3(3 - \sqrt{5})
B.
12(52)12(\sqrt{5} - 2)
C.
3(3+5)3(3 + \sqrt{5})
D.
3(51)3(\sqrt{5} - 1)
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