Huck Finn walks at a speed of 1 m/s across his raft. The raft is traveling down river at a speed of 2 m/s. What is the magnitiude of Huck's velocity relative to the river bank?

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Huck Finn walks at a speed of 1 m/s across his raft. The raft is traveling down river at a speed of 2 m/s. What is the magnitiude of Huck's velocity relative to the river bank?

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Finn walk at speed of 1m/s across raft. 

Raft traveling down river at speed 2m/s . 

The finn velocity relative to river is ,V =???

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