Time Speed and Distance Level 2

Q: In a 750 m race, the ratio of speeds of Arun to Darani is 1:3. Arun has a head start of 250 m. Who wins the race and by what distance?
A: Darani, 250 m.
Q: A, B and C start from the same place to walk around a circular path of length 12 km. A walks at the rate of 4 kmph, B at 3 kmph and C at 3/2 kmph. They will meet together at the starting place at the end of :
A: 24 hours
Q: Shardul is late to the practice match by 5mins when he travelled at a speed of 8 kmph. He decided to increase the speed by 4 kmph so that he can reach the ground 5 mins earlier. What will be the distance between his home and the ground?
A: 4 km
Q: P walks at a speed of 6 km/hr and after 5 hr of his start, Q starts running towards P at a speed of 8 km/hr. At what distance from the start will Q catch P?
A: 120 km
Q: Two trains of length 115 m and 110 m respectively run on parallel rails. When running in the same direction the faster train passes the slower one in 25 seconds, but when they are running in opposite directions with the same speeds as earlier, they pass each other in 5 seconds. Find the speed of each train?
A: 27 m/s, 18 m/s
Q: A journey of 192 km between two cities takes two hours less by a fast train than by a slow train. If the average speed of the slow train is 16 km/h less than that of the fast train, then the average speed of the fast train is
A: 48kmph
Q: A is 20% faster than B and takes 20 minutes for a certain distance. The time taken by B to cover double that distance is ______
A: 48 min
Q: Zeke goes to the office at the rate of 20 km/hr and reaches 9 min late. When he goes at the rate of 25 km/hr he reaches 6 min earlier than the scheduled time. What is the distance of the office from his house?
A: 25 km
Q: Train A and B start at the same time. Train A travels at 55 km/hr from station X to station Y and train B travels at 80 km/hr from station Y to station X. They cross each other after 1 hour and 36 minutes. What is the distance (in km) between stations X and Y?
A: 216
Q: Two trains 200 m and 160 m long, run at the rate of 60 km/h and 100 km/h respectively on parallel rails. How long will it take a man sitting in the second train to pass the first train if they run in the opposite direction?
A: 4.5 seconds
Q: Two trains of length 100 m and 200 m are 100 m apart. They start moving towards each other on parallel tracks, at speeds 54 kmph and 72 kmph. In how much time will the trains cross each other?
A: 11.43 sec
Q: A man completes a journey in 10 hours. He travels the first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and the second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
A: 224 Km
Q: Jothi covers half of his journey to his friend's house by train at 80 km/hr, half of the remaining by bus at 50 km/hr and the rest by cycle at 20 km/hr. Find his average speed during the entire journey. 
A: 12.12 km/h 
Q: The speed of boat in downstream is ‘X-4’ kmph and ratio of time taken by a boat to cover a certain distance in upstream to downstream is 2 : 1. If boat takes 5 hours to Cover 40 km in Upstream, then find the value of X?
A: 20 km/hr
Q: A takes 4 minutes 40 seconds to complete the race while b takes 5 minutes to complete the race . A beats B by 30 metres.Find the length of the course.
A: 450 m
Q: There are three runners Tom, Dick and Harry with their respective speeds of 10 kmph, 20 kmph and 30 kmph. They are initially at P and they have to run between the two points P and Q which are 10 km apart from each other. They start their race at 6 am and end at 6 pm on the same day. If they run between P and Q without any break, then how many times they will be together either at P or Q during the given time period?
A: 7
Q: The ratio between the rates of walking of A and B is 4:3. If the time taken by B to cover a certain distance is 24 minutes, then the time taken by A to cover that distance is
A: 18 min
Q: A man rows a boat upstream 13 km and downstream 28 km taking 5 hr each time. What is the velocity in (km/hr) of the boat?
A: 4.1 kmph
Q: A man had to travel a distance of 90 km to reach his destination. He travels by bus for 2.5 hours at a speed of 34 km/hr and covers the remaining distance on foot. If he reached his destination in 3 hours, at what speed did he travel by foot?
A: 10 km/hr
Q: A Bus starts from point A with a speed of 75 km/hr, for every hour it changes its speed by +5 km/hr, -10 km/hr,+15 km/hr and so on, after 5 hours it reaches point B. Find the time taken by a car to travel from point B to A at 60 km/hr
A: 6 hours 15 minutes
Q: Faisal and Rahman are working together in a stadium and staying together in a near by apartment. Faisal takes 40 minutes and Rahman takes 30 minutes to walk from the stadium to the apartment. If one day, Faisal started at 11:00AM and Rahman at 11:10 AM from the apartment to stadium, when will they meet?
A: 11:40 AM
Q: A good train and a passenger train are running on parallel tracks in the same direction. A passenger on the passenger train observes that the goods train coming from behind overtakes and crosses his train completely in 60 sec. Whereas the driver of the goods train marks that he crosses the passenger train in 40 sec. If the speeds of the trains are in the ratio 1:2, find the ratio of their lengths.
A: 1:2
Q: A can run one full round of a circular track in 6 min and B in 15 min. If both A and B start simultaneously from the same starting point then how many times would they meet in the time B has completed 10 rounds when running in the same direction, and in the opposite direction?
A: None
Q: A train travels a certain distance at a uniform speed. If the speed of the train is 14 km/h more, then the time taken to travel the same distance is 2 hours less. If the speed of the train is 10 km/hr less, then the time will be 2 hours more. Find the distance and the time taken to travel the distance. 
A: 840 km, 12 hr
Q: In a circular race along a track of length of 4500 m, A and B start from the same point and at the same time with speeds of 36 kmph and 54 kmph. After how many seconds will they meet for the first time if they are running in the same direction?
A: 900 s
Q: A train overtakes two men, walking in the same direction as the train, with speed of 3 km/hr and 4.5 km/hr in 8 and 12 seconds respectively. The length of the train is
A: 10 m
Q: Vinesh visits his friend's house, which can be covered in 6 hours and 15 minutes when traveled by walking during the onward journey and traveled by riding during the return journey. His friend said that he could walk both ways in 7 hours and 45 minutes. The time taken by him to ride back both ways is ____ ?
A: 4 hours and 45 min
Q: A motorist travels to a place 150 km away at an average speed of 50 km/hr and returns at 30 km/hr. His average speed for the whole journey in km/hr is _______.
A: 37.5 Km/hr
Q: A runs 25% faster than B and is able to give him a start of 7 m to end a race in a dead heat. What is the length of the race?
A: 35 m
Q: A plane left 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and in order to reach its destination 1,500 km away in time, it has to increase its speed by 250 km/hr from its usual speed. Find its usual speed in m/sec (approx).
A: 208 m/sec