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Question 895 of 1,708

You have steamed 369 miles at 16 knots and burning 326 barrels of fuel per day. You must decrease your consumption to 212 barrels per day with 271 miles left in your voyage. What must you reduce your speed (kts) to in order to burn this amount of fuel?

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Sh Shawn · May 22, 2015

New Speed^2 = (New Consumption / Old) * (Old speed^2 / X) * (Old Distance / New Distance)