CAT 2023 Slot 3 QA · Question 13

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

A.
$3 (3 - 5)$
B.
$12 (5 - 2)$
C.
$3 (3 + 5)$
D.
$3 (5 - 1)$

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