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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

$3 (\sqrt{5} - 1)$

B

$3 (3 + \sqrt{5})$

C

$3 (3 - \sqrt{5})$

D

$12 (\sqrt{5} - 2)$

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