SPEED TIME AND DISTANCE Question Sheet 1
- Jul 15
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Updated: Jul 30
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SPEED TIME AND DISTANCE Question
Q.1 A certain distance is covered at a certain speed. If half of this distance is covered in 4 times of the time, find the ratio of the two speeds.
a.1:3
b.1:4
c.4:1
d.8:1
Q. 2 A certain distance is travelled by a car in 42 minutes with a speed of 50 km/hr. Find the time taken when speed 70 km/hr?
a.20 min
b.40 min
c.30 min
d.50 min
Q.3 In covering a certain distance, the speeds of A and B are in the ratio of 3 : 4.
A takes 30 minutes more than B to reach the destination. The time taken by A to reach the destination is?
a.1 hour
b.1.5 hour
c.2 hour
d.2.5 hour
Q.4 If Mohan increase his speed by 20%, he reach school from his home 15 minutes early. Find the usual time taken by Mohan to reach school from his home.
a.1.5 hours
b.1.3 hours
c.1.25 hours
d.None of these
Q.5 If a man walks to his office at 3/4 of his usual rate, he reaches office 1/3 of an hour late than usual. What is his usual time to reach office?
a.1 hour
b.2 hour
c.3 hour
d.4 hour
Q.6 To cover a certain distance, if Radhe travels at 48km/hr hour then he is late by 18 minutes. By travelling at 72 km/hr he reaches 12 minutes before the scheduled time. Find the distance being covered.
a.48 km
b.65 km
c.70 km
d.72 km
Q.7 A person travels equal distances with speeds of 3 km/hr, 4 km/hr and 5 km/hr and takes a total time of 47 minutes. The total distance is?
a.2 km
b.3 km
c.4 km
d.5 km
Q.8 Raju hikes up a hill at 4 mph and comes down at 6 mph. If the total time taken for the total journey is 3.5 hours, what was the distance between the hilltop and the foothills?
a.9.4 miles
b.7.4 miles
c.8.4 miles
d.6.4 miles
Q.9 Wilson starts for office everyday at the same time. If he walks at 5kmph he is 2 min late. If he walks at 10 kmph he is 4 min early. Find his correct speed to reach on time and distance of his office from home.
a.6 kmph, 1 km
b.6.33 kmph, 0.8 km
c.6 kmph, 0.8 km
d.7.5 kmph, 1 km
Q.10 A train had an engine trouble, due to this it speed got reduced to 2/3rd of his normal speed and it reached his destination at 3:12 pm. If the engine trouble occured 48 km further on, the train would have reached at exactly 3 pm. What is the normal speed of train?
a.60 kmph
b.80 kmph
c.100 kmph
d.120 kmph
Q.11 Manish takes 2 hours more than Nitin to cover 200 km. If Manish doubled his speed then he would have taken 3 hours less than Nitin. What is the average of the speed of Manish and Nitin?
a.20 km/h
b.22.5 km/h
c.25 km/h
d.30 km/h
Q.12 Excluding stoppages, the speed of a train is 45 kmph and including stoppages it is 36 kmph. Of how many minutes does the train stop per hour?
a.10 min
b.11 min
c.12 min
d.13 min
Q.13 If the ratio of the time taken by Nishit to Kushagra’s car is 6 : 5 but the distance covered by Nishit was 240% to that of Kushagra then what is the ratio of the speed of Nishit to Kushagra?
a.2 : 1
b.3 : 4
c.4 : 3
d.5 : 6
Q.14 A man runs at a speed of 16 km/h. After every kilometer, he takes a rest for 3 minutes. How much time will he take to cover a distance of 28 km?
a.1 hours 45 minutes
b.1 hours 51 minutes
c.2 hours 51 minutes
d.3 hours 6 minutes
Q.15 If Armaan travels at speed of (x – 6) km/hour, he is late by four hours but if he travels with a speed of (x – 1) km/hour, he reaches the railway station from home at time then find the time of journey when he reaches railway station on time, if distance of railway station from home is 40 km.
a.3 hours
b.3.5 hours
c.4 hours
d.4.5 hours
Q. 16 Vimla starts for office every day at 9 am and reaches exactly on time if she drives at her usual speed of 40 km/hr. She is late by 6 minutes if she drives at 35 km/hr. One day, she covers two-thirds of her distance to office in one-thirds of her usual time to reach office, and then stops for 8 minutes. The speed, in km/hr, at which she should drive the remaining distance to reach office exactly on time is
a.26
b.27
c.28
d.29
Q.17 Arun drove from home to his hostel at 60 miles per hour. While returning home he drove half way along the same route at a speed of 25 miles per hour and then took a bypass road which increased his driving distance by 5 miles, but allowed him to drive at 50 miles per hour along this bypass road. If his return journey took 30 minutes more than his onward journey, then the total distance travelled by him is:
a.55 miles
b.60 miles
c.65 miles
d.70 miles
Q.18 Mr. Trump started from new York at 7 AM local time and reached Delhi 12 Noon, after meeting PM Modi, he started back at 5 PM and reached New York next day 10 AM. If distance from Delhi to New York is 9600 km, find speed of the airplane. (Assume all geographical factor like rotation of earth, speed of wind etc. Irrelevant).
a.920 Km/hr
b.9600/11 Km/hr
c.1050 Km/hr
d.Can't be determined
Q.19 Anshul cycled at 15 km/h for certain part of the journey and then he took a bus for the remaining part of the journey and travelled at 45 km/h. He took 8 hours for the entire journey with an average speed of 24 km/h. Find the distance travelled by him on cycle.
a.64 km
b.72 km
c.84 km
d.96 km
Q.20 A train travelled at one-thirds of its usual speed, and hence reached the destination 30 minutes after the scheduled time. On its return journey, the train initially travelled at its usual speed for 5 minutes but then stopped for 4 minutes for an emergency. The percentage by which the train must now increase its usual speed so as to reach the destination at the scheduled time, is nearest to
a.50.82
b.58.76
c.61.57
d.66.66
Q.21 A monkey can climb 3 metres in the first minute on a round smooth wet pillar but in the next minute it slips down to 1 metre. Climbing and sliding is done alternately every minute. How long will the monkey take to reach the top of the 31-metre long pillar?
a.29 minute
b.31 minute
c.33 minute
d.35 minute
Q.22 Leaving home at the same time, Amal reaches office at 10:15 am if he travels at 8kmph, and at 9:40 am if he travels at 15kmph. Leaving home at 9:10 am, at what speed, in kmph, must he travel so as to reach office exactly at 10:00 am?
a.11
b.12
c.13
d.14
Q.23 A man leaves his home and walks at a speed of 12 km per hour, reaching the railway station 10 minutes after the train had departed. If instead he had walked at a speed of 15 km per hour, he would have reached the station 10 minutes before the train's departure. The distance (in km) from his home to the railway station is:
a.19
b.22
c.20
d.21
Q.24 Kiran travels from A to B by car and returns from B to A by cycle in 7 hours. If he travels both ways by car he saves 3 hours. What is the time taken to cover both ways by cycle?
a.10 hours
b.13 hours
c.14 hours
d.12 hours
Q.25 A train met with an accident and it’s speed reduced by 20% and it got 45 minute late, it has already travelled 50 km before the accident. If the accident could have happened after covering another 50 kilometre, it could have reached 15 minutes early. Find the actual speed of the train.
a.40 km/hr
b.20 km/hr
c.50 km/hr
d.60 km/hr
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D | C | C | A | A | D | B | C | A | D |
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
B | C | A | D | C | C | C | B | C | D |
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A | B | C | A | C |
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