Problema Solution
a trimaran boat with a top speed of 50 knots won the tournament cup in 2010. Its top speed is 5 knots more than 2.5 times the top speed of the winner monohull in the 2007 tournament. Find the topspeed of the monohull in 2007
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The top speed is 5 knots more than 2.5 times the speed of 50 knots:
5 + 2.5*50 = 5 + 125 = 130 knots
The top speed of the Monohull tournament in 2007 was 130 knots.