Time Speed and Distance Level 3

Q: At what times A and B will be 5 km apart A and B are 20 km apart. A can walk at an average speed of 4 km/hr and B at 6 km/h. If they start walking towards each other at 7:00 am, when they will meet?
A: 9.00 AM
Q: A train travels a certain distance by taking 3 stops of 20 min each. Considering the period of stoppage, the overall speed of the train comes to 40 km/h. While without consideration of stoppage, it is 45 km/h. How much distance must the train have travelled?
A: 360 km
Q: A train (X) starts from Pune at 4:00 pm and reaches Delhi at 5:00 pm, while another train (Y) starts from Delhi at 4:00 pm and reaches Pune at 5:30 pm. What time will the two trains cross each other?
A: 4.36 pm
Q: Sunil is running laps of 400 meters in a park. He runs the first lap with a constant speed in exactly 1 minute and 40 seconds. Every following lap he increases his speed by 10% of the previous speed without exceeding his personal limit of 1 minute and 20 seconds for one lap. How many laps at most will he complete?
A: 3
Q: An astronaut while solving an equation came across a problem where he needs to find the time taken to reach Mars from Earth. He had the data that Mars is approximately 56.315 million km from Earth. He plans to propose the idea of sending a spacecraft to Mars from Earth, and the speed of spacecraft at an average speed of 2,900 meters per second. How many days it will take to reach the planet Mars? (Approximately)
A: 224.75 days
Q: The distance between the two cities A and B is 330 km. A train starts from A at 8 a.m. and travels towards B at 60 km/hr. Another train starts from B at 9 a.m. and travels towards A at 75 km/hr. At what time do they meet?
A: 11 am
Q: Ashwin has to travel from one point to another point in a certain time. Travelling at a speed of 6 kmph he reaches 40 minutes late and travelling at a speed of 8 kmph he reaches 12 minutes earlier. What is the distance between these two points (app.)?
A: 21 km
Q: Three men A, B and C walk around a circle, 1760 meters in circumference, at the rates of 160 meters, 120 meters and 105 meters per minute respectively. If they all start together and walk in the same direction, when will they be first together again?
A: 352 minutes
Q: A train starts from Delhi at 6:00 am and reaches Ambala Cantt at 10 am. The other train starts from Ambala Cantt at 8 am and reached Delhi at 11:30 am, If the distance between Delhi and Ambala Cantt is 200 km, then at what time did the two trains meet each other?
A: 8.56 am
Q: Two trains met at 10 a.m. at the Dadar railway station. After their meeting, one of them proceeded in the East direction while the other proceeded in the North direction. Exactly at noon, they were 60 km apart. Find the speed of the slower train if the difference of their speeds is 6 km/h
A: 18 km/h
Q: The jogging track in a sports complex is 726 m in circumference. Suresh and his wife start from the same point and walk in opposite direction at 4.5 km/hr and 3.75 km/hr respectively. They will meet for the first time in:
A: 5.28 minutes
Q: 50 trees are standing in a line such that distance between any two consecutive trees is same. A car takes 18 seconds to travel from 13th to 34th tree. How much time(in seconds) will it take to reach from the first tree to the 50th tree ?
A: 42
Q: Abhinav takes his car towards his friends's house which is at a distance 'x' km from his house. He travels three fourth of 'x' at a speed of 25 kmph and the remaining distance at a speed of 10 kmph. What is the average speed of the car for the entire journey?
A: None of these
Q: The distance between the two cities P and Q is 300km. A train starts from station P at 10 am with a speed of 80 km/hr towards Q. Another train starts from Q towards P with a speed of 40km/hr at 11 am. At what time do they meet?
A: 12.50 pm
Q: Two runners A and B race around a circular track of length 750 meters. A covers 5 m per step and finishes the race in 50 seconds. Find the length of one step of B if he loses the race by 30 seconds. Assume that number of footsteps taken per second is the same for both of them.
A: 3.125
Q: By travelling at 40 kmph, a person reaches his destination on time. He covered two-third the total distance in one-third of the total time. What speed should he maintain for the remaining distance to reach his destination on time?
A: 20 kmph
Q: The distance between two points A and B is 1000m. Object O1 is initially at A and O2 is at B. The speeds of O1 and O2 are respectively 80 m/s and 120 m/s. They move between A and B to and fro. Find the distance between A and B at the point of the fourth meeting and also find the time taken in it.
A: 7000 m and 35 s
Q: Mr Tyagi while going from Meerut to Saharanpur covered half the distance by train at the speed of 96 km/h then he covered half of the rest distance by his scooter at the speed of 60 km/h and finally he covered the rest of the distance at the speed of 40 km/h by car. The average speed at which Mr. Tyagi completed his journey is :
A: 64 km/h
Q: Arun and Raj are walking up on an escalator which is moving upwards. Arun requires 60 steps to climb to the top on the escalator while Raj requires 64 steps. For every 3 steps Raj took, Arun goes 4 steps ahead. What was the total number of steps present in the escalator?
A: 80 steps
Q: A man walked 12 km at a certain rate and then 6 km further at a rate of ½ km/hr faster. If he had walked the whole distance at the faster rate, his time would have been 20 minutes less. How long did it really take him to walk the 18 km?
A: 4 hrs
Q: Vinesh started from point A at a speed of 24 kmph towards point B which is 120 km away. After 20 minutes, Jatish started from point B at the speed of 36 kmph towards point A. What is the distance between the point they will meet and the point they would have met had both of them started simultaneously?
A: 4.8 km
Q: A train starts from Delhi at 6:00 a.m. and reaches Meerut at 10 a.m. The other train starts from Meerut at 8 a.m. and reaches Delhi at 11:30 a.m. If the distance between Delhi and Meerut is 200 km, then at what time did the two trains meet each other?
A: 8:56 am
Q: In a 200 m race, A gives B a head start of 25 m and wins by 10 s. If A gives B a head start of 45 m, the race ends in dead heat. What will be the time taken by A to complete the race?
A: 77.5 s
Q: The distance between two stations ‘P’ and ‘Q’ is 138 km. A train starts from ‘P’ towards ‘Q’ and another from ‘Q’ to ‘P’ at the same time and they meet after 6 hours. The train travelling from ‘P’ to ‘Q’ is slower by 7 km/h compared to other train from ‘Q’ to ‘P’. What is the speed of the slower train?
A: 8 km/h
Q: Saurabh goes to an exhibition at Ohio with his daughter and faithful dog. Unfortunately, the man misses his daughter which he realizes 20 minutes later. The daughter comes back towards his home at the speed of 20 m/min and man follows him at 40 m/min. The dog runs to the daughter (child) and comes back to the father to show him the direction of his daughter. It keeps moving to and fro at 60 m/min between son and father, till the father meets his daughter. What is the distance traveled by the dog in the direction of the daughter?
A: 1000 m
Q: Two trains are travelling on parallel tracks in the same direction, at speeds of 50 km/hr and 32 km/hr respectively. The faster train crosses the last boggy of the slower train, measuring 18 m in 18 seconds. The length of the faster train is
A: 0.072 km
Q: If the speed of train is 92.4 kmph, then how many metres are covered by it in 20 minutes?
A: 30800 m
Q: Two men A and B run a 4 km race on a course of $\frac{1}{4}$ km round. If their speeds are in the ratio of 5: 4, how often does the winner pass the other?
A: Thrice
Q: Two athletes P and Q are running around a circular track of length 1200 m at speeds of 6 m/s and 3 m/s respectively. Both of them start simultaneously from the same point in the same direction but P reverses his direction every time he completes one round. After how much time from the start will they meet for the first time?
A: 266.66 seconds
Q: The speed of two cyclists A and B are in the ratio of 11:12 respectively. Cyclist A travels 3.5 km less than cyclist B in the same time duration. What was the distance (in km) traveled by cyclist B during that time?
A: 42 km