a trip to a nearby island takes 2 1/3 hours by boat and 1/3 hour by plane. how many times fast as the boat is the plane?

Well I will do it this way ... A boat can travel 225 miles in the same time that a plane can fly 375 miles. The boat travels 60 miles per hour slower than the plane. So it is obvious that the boat is slower in general.

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But since this is math wise and not statistic wise I will say 13 times as fast.