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1. 4. The speed of a car is 40% more than that of a bus. A train covers 1020 km in 1 8 2
hours. How much distance will the car cover in 3 1 4 hours. if the speed of the bus
is half the speed of the train?
15. A man covers 5 12 of a total journey by train, 7 18 is of the journey by bus and the
remaining 7 km on foot. His total journey (in km) is:
13. What distance will be covered by a bus moving at 108 km/h in 40 seconds? / 108 km/h
16. A journey of 900 km is completed in 11 h. If 2 5 of the journey is completed at the speed
of 60 km/h. at what speed (in km/h) is the remaining journey completed? /
18. The ratio of the distances Ravina and Suhel had to travel from their respective houses
to their workplaces was 4:7. If Suhel had to travel 63 km, how much did Ravina
have to travel?
17. A train covers a distance of 225 km in 1 2 2 hours with a uniform speed. The time
taken, in hours, to cover a distance of 450km with the same speed is:
1. If Ram covers a certain journey at 60% of his usual speed, he reaches the destination
late by 36 min. His usual time (in min) to reach the destination is:
2. A car when increases its usual speed by 20%, it would reach certain destination 1 1 3
hours early. Find usual time taken by car to cover same distance.
18. The ratio of the distances Ravina and Suhel had to travel from their respective houses
to their workplaces was 4:7. If Suhel had to travel 63 km, how much did Ravina
have to travel?
17. A train covers a distance of 225 km in 1 2 2 hours with a uniform speed. The time
taken, in hours, to cover a distance of 450km with the same speed is:
1. Ram walks at a speed of 12 km/h. Today the day was very hot so walked at 5 6 of his
average speed. He arrived his school 10 minutes late. Find the usual time he
takes to cover distance between his school and home?
2. If Monu walks 200 km at 50 km/h, he will be late by 40 minutes. If he walks at 80 km/h.
How early from the fixed time will he reach?
3. Kriplani goes to school at 20 km/hr and reaches the school 4 minutes late. Next time,
she goes at 25 km/hr and reaches the school 2 minutes earlier than the scheduled
time. What is the distance of her school?
4. A father and his son start at a point A with speeds of 12 km/h and 18 km/h respectively
and reach another point B. If his son starts 60 min after his father at A and
reaches B, 60 min before his father, what is the distance between A and B?
5. X and Y start at the same time to ride from place A to place B, which is 80 km away from
A. X travels 4 km per hour slower than Y. Y reaches place B and at once turns
back meeting x, 16 km from place B. Y's speed (in km/h)
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6. A takes 2 hours more than B to cover a distance of 40 km. If A doubles his speed, he
takes 1 1 2 hours more than B to cover 80 km. To cover a distance of 90 km, how
much time (in hours) will B take travelling at his same speed
7. To cover a distance of 416 km, a train A takes 2 2 3 hours more than train B. If the speed
of A is doubled, it would take 1 1 3 hours less than B. What is the speed (in km/h)
of train A ?
A takes 2 hours 30 minutes more than B to walk 40 km. If A doubles his speed, then he can
make it in 1 hours less than B. How much time (in hours) does A require for
walking a 40 km distance?
9. Distance between thief and police is 300 m. Thief run at a speed of 8 km/hr & police run
same direction at a speed of 9 km/hr. Find the distance between thief & police
after 3 min
10. Distance between thief and police is 480 m. Thief run at a speed of 42 km/hr & police
run same direction at a speed of 34 km/hr. Find the distance covered by police to
catch the thief
10. A thief, seeing a policeman from a distance of 120 metres, starts running at a speed of
7 km/h. The policeman chases immediately with a speed of 8 km/h and the thief is
caught. What is the distance run by the thief?
1. Time taken by car to cover a certain distance from A to B is 2 hours lesser than that of
bus, while both of them are travelling at their normal speed. If bus can cover 54
km in 2 hours while travelling at its 75% of the speed. Find the ratio of speed of
car to that of bus if distance between A and B is 360 km.
2. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45
kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
3. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 72 kmph and including stoppages, it is 60
kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
4. A bus travels 1500 km with an average speed of 75 km/h. If it stops at 8 junctions it takes
exactly 1 day to travel the whole distance. Find out the time duration it stops for at
each stop.
5. A person covers a certain distance with certain speed if he increases his speed by 12
km/hr. Then he will be 16 minute early. By how much time he will be late if he
reduces his speed by 15 km/hr, if his initial speed is 60 km/hr.
6. Satyam always reaches his office 30 minutes after the office starting time. When he
increased his bike speed by 20%, he arrived at the office starting time. But when
he increased his bike speed by 10 km/h he failed to reach the office on time and
only arrived at the office 15 minute after the starting time. What could be the usual
bike speed?
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7. A car driver leaves Noida at 9.30 am and expects to reach a place 300 km from Noida at
1.30 pm. At 11.30 am he finds that he has covered only 40% of the distance. By
how much he has to increase the car's speed to keep up his schedule?
8. Two cars A and B start simultaneously from a certain place at the speed of 30 km/h and
45 km/h, respectively. The car B reaches the destination 2 hour earlier than A.
what is the distance between the starting point and destination?
9. A person moved from place A for place B at 2 p.m. at a speed of 4.5 km/h, stayed at
place B for 1.5 hours and returned to place A at a speed of 6 km/h. He came back
to place A at 7 p.m. What is the distance between places A and B (in km)?
10. Train covers the distance between two stations x and Y in 6 hours. If the speed of the
train is reduced by 13 km/h, then it travels the same distance in 9 hours. Find the
distance between the two stations.
11. A takes 3 hours more than B to walk 'd' km. If A doubles his speed, then he can make it
in 1 hour less than B. How much time (in hours) does A require to walk 'd' km?
12. Mohan takes 2 hours more than Kishore to walk 63 km. If Mohan increases his speed
by 50%, then he can make it in 1 hour less than Kishore. How much time does
Kishore take to walk 63 km?
13. If Raman drives his bike at a speed of 24 km/h, he reaches his offices 5 minutes late. If
he drives at a speed of 30 km/h. he reaches his office 4 minutes early. How much
time (in minutes) will he take to reach his office at a speed of 27 km/h?
14. If a Boy goes to his school at the speed of 40 km/h. He reaches 2 hours early and if the
travels at the speed of 30 km/h then the reaches 1 hour early. Find out his actual
speed, distance and actual time taken in order to reach at time.
15. A man can reach a certain place in 12 hours. If he reduces his speed by 1/9th , he goes
6 km less in that time. Find his reduced speed per hour
1. Suman travels from place X to Y and Payal travels from Y to X, simultaneously. After
meeting on the way, Suman and Payal reach Y and X, in 3 hours 12 minutes and
one hour 48 minutes respectively. If the speed of Payal is 9 km/h, then the speed
(in km/h) of Suman is:
2. Two persons Ram and Shyam start simultaneously in the opposite direction from two
points A and B at 9:00 am. Each of them runs towards starting point of other. after
crossing each other Ram and Shyam took 80 minutes and 45 minutes to reach
their destination. At what time they will meet each other.
3. P and Q start running simultaneously – one from point A to B and the second from point
B to A. P's speed is 6/5th of Q's speed. If after crossing Q, P takes 2 1/2 hours to
reach B, how much time does Q take to reach A after crossing P?
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4. Two trains P & Q start their journey from Delhi & Kanpur respectively towards each other.
When they will cross each other then, train P & Q will take 25 hr. & 16 hr.
respectively to reach their destination. The speed of train Q is 40 km/hr. find the
distance between Delhi and Kanpur?
5. A passenger train left town A for town B. At the same time, a goods train left town B for
town A. The speed of each train is constant throughout the whole trip. Two hours
after the trains met, they were 450 km apart. The passenger train arrived at the
place of destination 16 hours after their meeting and the goods train, 25 hours
after the meeting. How long did it take the passenger train to make the whole trip?
6 A car travels from P to Q at a constant speed. If its speed were increased by 10 km/h, it
would have taken one hour less to cover the distance. if the speed were further
increased by 10 km/h. It would have taker further 30 min lesser What is the speed
of the car.
1. A person has to cover a distance of 48 km. If he 21:1 increases his speed by 4 km/h he
reaches 1 hour early. Find his initial speed.
2. A motorbike travels a distance of 400 kms at uniform speed. If the speed of the
motorbike is increased by 10 km per hr it takes two hours less for the same
journey. Find the original speed of the motorbike?
3. A train covers 400km at a uniform speed. If the speed had been 10 km/h more, it would
have taken 2 hours less for the same journey. What is the usual time taken (in
hours) by it to complete the journey?
3. A train takes 2 hours less for a journey of 300 km, if its speed is increased by 20 km/hr
from it usual speed. How much time will it take to cover a distance of 192 km at its
usual speed?
4. The buses are departed after every 21 minutes from a bus depot. A beautiful girl going
away from the depot meets the buses after every 28 minutes. Find the speed of
buses if the speed of girl is 30km/hr.
5. A metro leaves after every 15 minutes. A person is running towards metro then he
catches the metro after 12 minutes. If speed of metro is 16 km/h. Find speed of
man.
6. A hunter fired two shots from the branch of a tree at an interval of 76 seconds. A tiger
separating too fast hears the two shots at an interval of 83 seconds. If the velocity
of the sound is 1162 km/h, then find the speed of tiger?
7. I walk a certain distance and ride back taking a total time of 41 minutes. I could walk both
ways in 57 minutes. How long would it take me to ride both ways?
8. A man walks a certain distance and rides back to walk both in 3 hours 15 minutes. He
could ride both ways in 3 hours. Find the time required by the man ways?
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9. A man walks at a speed of 8km/h. After every kilometre, he takes a rest for 4 minutes.
How much time will he take to cover a distance of 6km ?
1. Raj and Prem walk in opposite direction at the rate of 3 km and 2 km per hour
respectively. How far will they be from each other after 2 hrs?
2. Two bikers A and B start at same time and ride at 75 km/hr and 60 km/hr respectively
towards each other. They meet after 20 minutes. How far (in km) were they from
each other when they started?
3. Two men P and Q start from a place walking at 5 km/h and 6.5 km/h, respectively. What
is the time they will take to be 92 km apart, if they walk in opposite directions?
4. Two buses start at the same time from Delhi and Agra, which are 300 km apart, towards
each other. After what time will they cross each other if their speeds are 38 km per
hour and 37 km per hour ?
5. A and B are two stations 390 km apart. A train starts from A at 10 a.m. and travels
towards B at 65 km/h. Another train starts from B at 11 a.m. and travels towards A
at 35 km/h. At what time do they meet?
6. The distance between two places A and B is 370 km. the 1st car departs from place A to
B, at a speed of 80 km/h at 10 am and 2nd car departs from place B to A at a
speed of 50 km/h at 1pm. At what time both cars meet each other?
7. The speeds of the Shaan and Rohan are 50km/h and 30 km/h respectively. Initially
Shaan is at a place N and Rohan is at a place M. The distance between M and N
is 710 km. Shaan started his journey 3 hours earlier than Rohan to meet each
other. If they meet each other at a place R somewhere between M and N. then the
distance between R and N is:
8. Two SUV cars start at the same time from Patna and Gaya, which are 110 km apart. If
the two cars travel towards each other, they meet after one hour and if they travel
in the same direction, the car from Patna overtakes the car from Gaya after 11
hours. What is the speed of the car starting from Gaya?
9. Places A and B are 144 km part. Two cars starts simultaneously, one from A and the
other from B. If they move in the same direction, they meet after 12 hours, but if
they move towards each other they meet after 2 hours. The speed (in/km) of the
car moving at a faster speed is
10. Prem and Shyam decide to go on a trip to Point Y on a particular day from Point X.
Prem leaves for Point Y at 11:00 am at a speed of 72 km/hr. Shyam leaves for
Point Y at 11 : 30 the same day as Prem left. At what speed should Shyam travel
to catch up with Prem in 4 hours ?
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11. A car driver, driving in a fog, passes a pedestrian who was walking at the rate of 2 km/h
in the same direction. The pedestrian could see the car for 6 min and it was visible
to him up to a distance of 0.6 km. What was the speed of the car?
12. The distance between two bus stops of lucknow and Delhi is 450km. A bus starts from
lucknow and moves towards delhi at an average speed of 15 km/h. Another bus
starts from delhi, 20 minutes earlier than the first bus and moves towards lucknow
at an average speed of 20 km/h. How far from lucknow and from delhi will the two
buses will meet respectively:
13. A train A starts from Delhi at 4 pm and reaches Meerut at 5 pm while another train B
starts from Meerut at 4 pm and reaches Delhi at 5:30 pm. The two trains will cross
each other at what time? /
14. The distance between two stations, A and B, is 428 km. A train starts from station 'A' at
6.00 a.m. and moves towards station 'B' at an average speed of 48 km/h. another
train starts from station ‘B’ at 6:20 a.m. and moves towards station 'A' at an
average speed of 55 km/h. at what time will the trains meet?
15. A and B start moving towards each other from places X and Y, respectively, at the same
time on the same day. The speed of A is 20% more than that of B. After meeting
on the way, A and B take p hours and 7 hours, respectively, to reach Y and X,
respectively. What is the value of p?
1. Speed of A and B is 8 km/h and 13km/h respectively. They start moving in same
direction. After 4 hours A doubles his speed and B decreases his speed by 1
km/h, both reached at decided location at same time. Find the duration of journey
2. Distance between thief and police is 300m. Thief run at a speed of 8 km/hr & police run
same direction at a speed of 9 km/hr. Find the distance between thief & police
after 3 minutes.
3. Distance between thief and police is 200 m. Thief run at a speed of 6 m/s & police run
same | direction at a speed of 8 m/s. In how much time they meet ?
4. Two places P and Q are 162 km apart. A bus leaves P for Q and simultaneously another
bus leaves Q for P. They meet at the end of 6 hours. If the former bus travels 8
km/hour faster than the other, then find the speed of bus from Q
5. The driver of a car driving at a speed of 38km/h observes a bus 400m ahead of him,
travelling in the same direction. After 200seconds, the bus is 600m behind. Find
Othe speed of bus?
6. A tiger is 50 leaps of its own behind a deer. The tiger takes 5 leaps per minute to the
deer is 4. If the tiger and the deer cover 8 metre and 5 metre per leap respectively,
what distance in metres will the tiger have to run before it catches the deer?
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7. B starts 4 minutes after A from the same point, for a place at a distance of 7 miles from
the starting point. A on reaching the destination turns back and walks a mile
where hemeets B. If A's speed is a mile in 8 minutes then B's speed is mile in
minutes. /
8. A father picks his child at 3:30pm from school. One day the child left at 2:30 pm and
started to walk at the speed of 5 km/h and meets his father on the way and they
reach home 24 minutes early. Find the speed of father
9. Arun travelled a distance of 71 km in 11 hours. He travelled partly on bullockcart at the
rate 5 kmph and partly on bicycle at the rate 9 kmph. Find the distance travelled
on bullockcart?
10. As part of his journey, a person travels 120 km at 80 km/h, the next 100kmat 40km / h,
and comes back to the starting point at 75 km/h. The average speed of the person
throughout the journey (approximately) is:
11. If a body covers a distance at the rate of x km/h and another equal distance at the rate
of y km/h, then the average speed (in km/h) is
12. The ratio of the distance between two places A and B to the distance between places B
and C is 3:5. A man travels from A to B at a speed of x km/h and from B to C at a
speed of 50km / h. If his average speed for the entire journey is 40km / h, then
what is the value of (x - 10) : (x + 1) ?
13. A Bus travels first half distance between two places with a speed of 40 kmph and the
rest half distance with a speed of 60 kmph. The average speed of the Bus is ?
14. Aman walks 6 km at a speed of 1 1 kmph 2 , runs 8 km at a speed of 2 kmph and goes
by bus another 32 km. Speed of the bus is 8 kmph. Find the average speed of the
Aman in kmph.
15. A man makes four trips of equal distances. His speed on first trip was 60 km/hr and in
each subsequent trip his speed was half of the previous trip. What is the average
speed (in km/hr) of the man in these four trips?
16. A car travels the first one-third of a certain distance with a speed of 10 km/hr, the next
one-third distance with a speed of 20 km/hr and the last one-third distance with a
speed of 60 km/hr. The average speed of the car for the whole journey is:
17. Richa travels from A to B at the speed of 15 km/h, from B to C at 20 km/h, and from C
to D at 30 km/h. If AB = BC = CD, then find the Richa's average speed?
18. P starts from A at 6 a.m. and reaches B after 8 hours. Q starts from B at 8 a.m. and
reaches A after 9 hours. When they met. What is the ratio of the distance travelled
by Q to the distance traveled by p?
19. When a person travels at a speed of 1 8 m / sec 3 , he will reach his destination on
time. He covers 2 3 of the journey in 5 8 of the time. At what speed (in km/h)
should he travel to cover the remaining distance to reach the destination on time?
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20. A man had to travel 49 km, which he divided into six stretches which were exact
multiples of either 4 km or 5 km. The first four stretches were 4 km, 5 km, 8 km
and 10 km. Multiples of 4 km and 5 km were travelled at the rates of 40 and 60
km/h respectively, and between two consecutive stretches, he rested for six
minutes. What was his average speed (in km/h) for the whole journey?
1. An officer goes to office from his home, which is 12 km apart. His speed is 6 km/h. After
6 min he realised that he left some important documents at home. He returns to
home and now he travels at some fast speed towards the office, and reaches
office on time. Find his increased speed ?
2. A train approaches a tunnel AB, inside the tunnel a dog located at a point i.e., 2/5 of the
distance AB measured from the entrance A. When the train whistles, the dog runs.
If the dog moves to the entrance of the tunnel A, the train catches the dog exactly
at the entrance. If the dog moves to the exit B, the train catches the dog exactly at
the exit. Find the ratio of speed of train and dog.
3. A bus meets an auto at 10:00 am while going on the same way towards Haridwar. The
Bus reach at Haridwar at 12:30 pm and take 1 hour rest there. Bus return the
same way and meet the same auto half hour later. At what time the Auto will reach
at Haridwar?
4. A boy from Delhi and a girl from Meerut started walking towards each other. They both
started with the speed of 5 km/h. After every 1 hour the boy increased his speed
by 1 km/h and the girl decreased her speed by 1 km/h. Distance between Delhi &
Meerut is 110km. Find the time taken by them to meet each other. /
5. Speed of a man is 90km/h after every 24 minutes he reduces his speed by 5 km/h. If he
has to travel 160 km find out the time taken to cover the distance
6. A person covers a distance of 80 km in 8 hours. some part of this journey is completed at
the speed of 8 km/h and the rest at 16 km/h. Find distance covered at both
speeds respectively.
7. A person travels a distance of 240 km, partly by train and the rest by bus. He takes 1 3 2
hrs if he travels 150 km by train and the rest by bus. If he travels 140 km by bus
and the rest by train, he takes 2 3 3 hrs. What is the speed of the train?
8. A person covers a distance of 300 km partly by train and partly by car. If he travels 60 km
by train and rest by car it takes him 4 hours to cover that distance and if he covers
100 km by train and rest by car it takes him 4 hours 10 minutes to cover that
distance. Find out the speed of train and car
9. A person cover a distance of 450 km partly by train and partly by car. If he travels 100
km by train rest by car it takes 8 hours and if he covers 170 by train and rest by
car it takes. him 8 hours 12 minute to cover that distance. Find the speed of train
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10. A train going from A to B, meets with a small accident after travelling 40 km. Due to the
accident, the train reduces its speed to 3/4 of its normal speed and reaches its
destination 20 minutes late, had the same accident occurred 80km further the
train would have reached the same destination 10 minutes late. What is the
distance from A to B & speed of train.
11. A train going from A to B, meets with a small accident after travelling 80 km. Due to the
accident, the train reduces its speed to 2/3 of its normal speed and reaches its
destination 30 minutes late, had the same accident occurred 60 km further the
train would have reached the same destination just 10 minutes late. What is the
distance from A to B
12. A naughty bird is sitting on top of a car. It sees another car approaching it at a distance
of 26 km. The speed of the two cars is 60 km/h and 70 km/h. The bird starts flying
from the first car and moves towards the second car, reaches the second car and
comes back to the first car and so on. If the speed at which the bird flies is 20
km/h. The total distance travelled by the bird. (Assume thatthe two cars have a
crash)
13. Distance between A and B is 600 km. When they start moving towards each other they
meet in 12 hours. If A moved 5 hours after B then they meet in 10 hours. Find
their speeds.
14. Distance between two stations is 450km. A train from A starts moving towards B at the
speed of 15 km/h another train from B starts moving towards A 20 minutes before
the first train with the speed of 20 km/h. Find at what distance from A will they
meet each other.
1. The distance covered by a train in (5y - 1) hours is (125y3 -1) km. The speed of the train
is
2. Two trains are moving in the opposite direction at the speed of 48 km/hr and 60 km/hr
respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross a man sitting in the faster
train is 12 seconds. What is the length of the slower train?
3. Two stations R and S are 400 km apart from each other. A train leaves from R to S and
simultaneously another train leaves from S to R. Both trains meet after 10 hours. If
the speed of the first train is 4 km/hr more than the second train, then what is the
speed of the slower train?
4. A train travels at a speed of 18 m/s in the first 5 minutes, covers 7.5 km in the next 10
minutes and covers 12 km in another 10 minutes. What is its average speed (in
km/h, rounded off to 1 decimal place) for the entire journey?
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5. Train A running at 81 km/h takes 72 sec to overtake train B, when both the trains are
running in the same direction, but it takes 36 sec to cross each other if the trains
are running in the opposite direction. If the length of train B is 600 metres, then
find the length of train A. (in metres
6. The ratio of length of two trains is 4:3 and the ratio of their speeds is 6:11. The ratio of
time taken by them to cross a pole is?
7. A train 150 m long, passes a pole in 15 seconds. And crosses the second train of same
length travelling in opposite direction in 12 seconds. The speed of the second train
is
8. Two trains of equal length take 10 seconds and 15 seconds respectively to cross a
telegraph post. If the length of each train be 120m, in what time (in seconds) will
they cross each other travelling in opposite direction?
9. A train passes a platform in 42 sec and a man standing on the platform in 25 sec. If the
speed of the train is 72 km/h. What is the length of the
10. A moving train crosses a man standing on a platform and a bridge 640m long in 15 sec
and 35 sec respectively. What will be the time taken by the train to cross a
platform 1280 m long ?
11. Two trains cross a man standing in a platform in 18 sec and 24 sec. While crosses each
other coming from opposite direction in 20 sec. Find ratio of speed of the trains?
12. Renu was sitting inside train A, which was travelling at 50km/h. Another train, B whose
length was three times the length of A crossed her in the opposite direction in 15
seconds. If the speed of train B was 58km/h, then find the length of train A (in m
13. A train travelling at the speed of x km/h crossed a 300m long platform in 30 seconds,
and overtook a man walking in the same direction at 6 km/h in 20 seconds. What
is the value of x ?
14. A train crosses two men running in the direction of train whose speed are 5 km/h and 7
km/h in 10 seconds and 11 seconds respectively. Find the speed of train
15. A train crosses two men running in the direction of train whose speeds are 10 km/h and
12 km/h in 5 seconds and 7 seconds respectively. Find the speed of trainkm/h in 1
6 4 seconds and it crosses another man running with the speed of 4 km/h more
than the first one in 1 2 2 seconds more than the first one. Findthe speed of the
train. /
17. A train crosses a man running in the direction of train with the speed of 5 km/h in 10
seconds whereas when a person runs in the opposite direction with the speed of 5
km/h the train crosses in 5 seconds. Find the speed of train
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18. A train crosses a man running in the direction of train with the speed of 6 km/h in 12
seconds. Whereas this train crosses another man running in the opposite direction
of train with the speed of 5 km/h in 10 second. What is the speed of train
1. A train travelling at the speed of x km/h crossed a 200 m long platform in 30 seconds
and overtook a man walking in the same direction at the speed of 6 km/h in 20
seconds. What is the value of x ?
2. A goods train 350 m long passes through a tunnel of length 1250 m in 80 seconds. What
is the speed of the train?
3. A train with 120 wagons cross Arjun who is going in the same direction, in 36 sec. It
travels for half an hour from the time it starts overtaking the Arjun (he is riding on
the horse) before it starts overtaking Srikrishna (who is also riding on the horse)
coming from the opposite direction in 24 sec. In how much time (in sec) after the
train has crossed the Srikrishna do the Arjun meets to Srikrishna ?
4. A train of length 287m, running at 80km/h, crosses another train moving in the opposite
direction at 37 km/h in 18 seconds. What is the length of the other train ?
5. A train travelling at 36km/h crosses a pole in 25 seconds. How much time (in seconds)
will it take to cross a bridge 350m long?
6. A train x running at 74 km/h crosses another train y running at 52 km/h in the opposite
direction in 12 seconds. If the length of y is 2 3 that of x, then what is the length of
x (in m )
7. Two trains running in opposite directions on parallel tracks, at speeds of 42 km/h and 57
km/h, take 18 seconds to cross each other. If the length of one train is 270m, then
the length of the other train is:
8. A tunnel is 2 km long. Two trains enter the tunnel from two opposite ends at the same
time. They meet each other after 1.5 minutes. If the point of meeting the first train
has travelled 400m more than the other. They cross each other in 4.5 seconds.
After 57 seconds the first train is completely out side the tunnel. Find the Vength
of both trains. /
9. Two trains T1 and T2, whose front ends are 539 km a part, start at the same time and
move towards each other. They just complete crossing each other after 3hrs 20
minutes. Find the difference between the length of the two trains, given that their
lengths are in ratio 2:3 and their speeds are 25m/s and 20 m/s respectively
10. Ratio of length of trains is 3 : 4. Coming from opposite direction. They cross a pole in 3
seconds each. Then in what time will they cross each Other
11. Distance between any 2 pole beside a train is 50m. A person sitting in the train starts
counting the poles. If the speed of the train is 45 km/h then find the number of
poles he will count in 4 hours
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12. A train overtakes two girls who are walking in the opposite direction in which the train is
going at the rate of 3 km/h and 6 km/h and passes them completely in 36 seconds
and 30 seconds respectively. The length of the train (in metres) is
13. A train overtakes two girls who are walking in the opposite direction in which the train is
going at the rate of 3 km/h and 6 km/h and passes them completely in 36 seconds
and 30 seconds respectively. The length of the train (in metres) is:
14. A passenger sitting in a train of length / m, which is running with the speed of 60 km/h
passing through two bridges, notices that he crosses the first bridge and the
second bridge in time intervals which are in the ratio of 7 : 4 respectively. If the
length of first bridge is 280 m, then the length of second bridges is
15. A train running at 25 km/hr takes 18 seconds to pass a platform. Next, it takes 12
seconds to pass a man walking at 5 km/hr in the opposite direction. Find the
length of the train and that of the platform. /
1. A boat covers a distance of 12 km in 1 hour upstream and in 45 minutes downstream.
Find the speed of the boat and the stream (in km/h)
2. The effective speed of a boat is 15.2 km/h against the stream and 20.8 km/h along the
stream. Find the speed of the stream.
3. A boat goes 20 km upstream and 44 km downstream in 8 hours. In 5 hours, it goes 15
km upstream and 22 km downstream. Determine the speed of the boat in still
water. /
4. A boat can cover 120 km upstream and back in a total of 30 hours, and 25 km upstream
and 40km downstream in a total of 7 hours. How much distance will the boat
cover in 16 hours in still water? /
5. Dharmendra can row 80km upstream and 110km downstream in 13 hours. Also, he can
row 60 km upstream and 88 km downstream in 10 hours. What is the speed (in
km/h) of the current?
6. A boat covers a certain distance against the stream in 9 hours 36 min and it covers the
same distance along the stream in 6 hours. What is the ratio of the speed of the
boat in still water to that of the stream?
7. A boat covers 35 km downstream in 2 h and covers the same distance upstream in 7 h.
Find the speed (in km/h) of the boat in still water
8. A man rows a boat a certain distance downstream in 9 hours, while it takes 18 hours to
row the same distance upstream. How many hours will it take him to row
three-fifth of the same distance in still water?
9. The speed of a boat in still water is 1 5 3 km / h. It is found that the boat takes thrice as
much time to row up than it does to row down the same distance in the river
stream. Find the speed of the river stream.
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10. A boat racer can row 3 21 2 km/h in still water. If the speed of river is 12.5 km/h, it takes
him 40 minutes to row to a place and back, how far off is the place (consider up to
two decimals)?
11. A man rows to a place 48 km distant and comes back in 14 hours. He finds that he can
row 4 km with the stream in the same time as 3 km against the stream. The speed
of the stream is:
12. A swimmer swims from a point P against the current for 6 min and then swims back
along the current for next 6 min and reaches at a point Q. If the distance between
P and Q is 120 m then the speed of the current (in km/ h) is: