Aptitude: Time and Distance+
1. A person crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes. What is his
10. A car travelling with of its actual speed covers 42 km in 1 hr
speed in km per hour?
40 min 48 sec. Find the actual speed of the car.
A.3.6 B. 7.2
6
C. 8.4 D.10 A.17 km/hr B. 25 km/hr
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C. 30 km/hr D.35 km/hr
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Explanation:
600
Speed = 4 51 126
5 x 60 Time taken = 1 hr 40 min 48 sec = 1 hr 40 min = 1 hrs = hrs.
m/sec. 5 75 75
= 2 m/sec. Let the actual speed be x km/hr.
Converting m/sec to km/hr (see important formulas section) 5 126
Then, x x = 42
7 75
18 42 x 7 x 75
= 2x km/hr x= = 35 km/hr.
5 5 x 126
11. In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than
= 7.2 km/hr. Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less
than Sameer. Abhay's speed is:
2. An aeroplane covers a certain distance at a speed of 240 kmph in A.5 kmph B. 6 kmph
C. 6.25 kmph D.7.5 kmph
5 hours. To cover the same distance in 1 hours, it must travel at a
speed of: Answer: Option A
A.300 kmph B. 360 kmph
C. 600 kmph D.720 kmph Explanation:
Answer: Option D Let Abhay's speed be x km/hr.
Explanation: 30 30
Then, - =3
x 2x
Distance = (240 x 5) = 1200 km.
6x = 30
Speed = Distance/Time
x = 5 km/hr.
Speed = 1200/(5/3) km/hr. [We can write 1 hours as 5/3 hours] 12. Robert is travelling on his cycle and has calculated to reach
point A at 2 P.M. if he travels at 10 kmph, he will reach there at 12
noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he travel to reach
3 A at 1 P.M.?
Required speed = 1200 x = 720 km/hr. A.8 kmph B. 11 kmph
5
km/hr C. 12 kmph D.14 kmph
3. If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have
walked 20 km more. The actual distance travelled by him is: Answer: Option C
A.50 km B. 56 km
C. 70 km D.80 km
Explanation:
Answer: Option A
Let the distance travelled by x km.
Explanation:
x x
Then, - =2
10 15
Let the actual distance travelled be x km.
3x - 2x = 60
x x + 20
Then, =
10 14
x = 60 km.
14x = 10x + 200
4x = 200 60
Time taken to travel 60 km at 10 km/hr = = 6 hrs.
10
x = 50 km. hrs
4. A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A So, Robert started 6 hours before 2 P.M. i.e., at 8 A.M.
at the same time and reach point B 75 kms away from A at the same
time. On the way, however, the train lost about 12.5 minutes while 60
stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is: = 12 kmph.
Required speed =
A.100 kmph B. 110 kmph 5
C. 120 kmph D.130 kmph kmph.
13. It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by
train and the rest by car. It takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done
Answer: Option C by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed of the train to that
of the cars is:
A.2 : 3 B. 3 : 2
Explanation:
C. 3 : 4 D.4 : 3
Let speed of the car be x kmph.
Answer: Option C
150 3
Explanation:
Then, speed of the train = x= x
100 2
kmph.
75 75 125 Let the speed of the train be x km/hr and that of the car be y km/hr.
- =
x (3/2)x 10 x 60
75 50 5 120 480 1 4 1
- = Then, + =8 + = ....(i)
x x 24 x y x y 15
25 x24 200 400 25 1 2 1
x= = 120 kmph. And, + = + = ....(ii)
5 x y 3 x y 24
5. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and
including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the Solving (i) and (ii), we get: x = 60 and y = 80.
bus stop per hour?
A.9 B. 10 Ratio of speeds = 60 : 80 = 3 : 4.
C. 12 D.20
14. A farmer travelled a distance of 61 km in 9 hours. He travelled
Answer: Option B partly on foot @ 4 km/hr and partly on bicycle @ 9 km/hr. The
distance travelled on foot is:
Explanation: A.14 km B. 15 km
C. 16 km D.17 km
Due to stoppages, it covers 9 km less.
Answer: Option C
9
Time taken to cover 9 km = x 60 = 10 min. Explanation:
54
min
6. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad Let the distance travelled on foot be x km.
weather. Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr
and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. The duration of the
Then, distance travelled on bicycle = (61 -x) km.
flight is:
A.1 hour B. 2 hours
C. 3 hours D.4 hours x (61 -x)
So, + =9
4 9
Answer: Option A
9x + 4(61 -x) = 9 x 36
Explanation:
5x = 80
Let the duration of the flight be x hours.
x = 16 km.
600 600
Then, - = 200
x x + (1/2) 15. A man covered a certain distance at some speed. Had he moved
600 1200 3 kmph faster, he would have taken 40 minutes less. If he had
- = 200
x 2x + 1 moved 2 kmph slower, he would have taken 40 minutes more. The
distance (in km) is:
2
x(2x + 1) = 3 A.35 B. 36
3
1
C. 37 D.40
2x2 + x - 3 = 0 2
(2x + 3)(x - 1) = 0 Answer: Option D
x = 1 hr. [neglecting the -ve value of x] Explanation:
7. A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the Let distance = x km and usual rate = y kmph.
journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24
km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
x x 40
A.220 km B. 224 km Then, - = 2y(y + 3) = 9x ....(i)
y y + 3 60
C. 230 km D.234 km
x x 40
And, - = y(y - 2) = 3x ....(ii)
y -2 y 60
Answer: Option B
On dividing (i) by (ii), we get: x = 40.
Explanation:
Speed, Time and Distance:
(1/2)x (1/2)x
+ = 10
21 24
Distance Distance
x x Speed Time Distance = (Speed x
+ = 20 , ,
21 24 = Time = Speed Time).
15x = 168 x 20
km/hr to m/sec conversion:
168 x 20
x= = 224 km. 5
15 x km/hr = xx m/sec.
18
8. The ratio between the speeds of two trains is 7 : 8. If the second
train runs 400 km in 4 hours, then the speed of the first train is:
A.70 km/hr B. 75 km/hr m/sec to km/hr conversion:
C. 84 km/hr D.87.5 km/hr
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Answer: Option D x m/sec = xx km/hr.
5
Explanation:
If the ratio of the speeds of A and B is a : b, then the ratio of the
Let the speed of two trains be 7x and 8x km/hr.
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the times taken by then to cover the same distance is : or b : a.
400 ab
Then, 8x = = 100
4
Suppose a man covers a certain distance at x km/hr and an equal
100 distance at y km/hr. Then,
x= = 12.5
8
2xy
the average speed during the whole journey is km/hr.
x+y
Speed of first train = (7 x 12.5) km/hr = 87.5 km/hr.
9. A man on tour travels first 160 km at 64 km/hr and the next 160
km at 80 km/hr. The average speed for the first 320 km of the tour
is:
A.35.55 km/hr B. 36 km/hr
C. 71.11 km/hr D.71 km/hr
Answer: Option C
Explanation:
160 160 9
Total time taken = + = hrs.
64 80 2
hrs.
2
Average speed = 320 x = 71.11 km/hr.
9
km/hr
