Question: A company is looking into establishing a excursion ferry connection between two tourist locations 60 miles apart on a river bank. The speed of

A company is looking into establishing a excursion ferry connection between two 


A company is looking into establishing a excursion ferry connection between two tourist locations 60 miles apart on a river bank. The speed of the river current is 2 mph, and the company would like to limit the round trip to at most 5.5 hours. Assuming that the power of the ferry is constant and results in the speed in still water being v, what range of v would satisfy the company's request? The range of v that would satisfy the company's request is (Type an inequality or a compound inequality. Use integers or fractions for any numbers in the expression.)

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