maths by digant arora
TIME -SPEED -DISTANCE
8.What is the time taken by Chandu to cover a dis-
ance of 360 km by a motorcycle moving at a
1.The Sinhagad Express left Pune at noon sharp.
Two hours later, the Deccan Queen started from speed of 10 m/s?
Pune in the same direction. The Deccan Queen
overtook the Sinhagad Express at 8 p.m. Find the (a) 10 h (b) 5 h(c) 8 h(d) 6 h
average speed of the two trains over this journey if
the sum of their average speeds is 70 km/h. 9.Without stoppage, a train travels a certain distance
with an average speed of 60 km/h, and with
(a) 34.28 km/h (b) 35 km/h(c) 50 km/h(d) 12 km/h stoppage, it covers the same distance with an
average speed of 40 km/h. On an average, how
2.Walking at 3/4 of his normal speed, Abhishek is 16 many minutes per hour does the train stop during the
minutes late in reaching his office. The usual journey?
time taken by him to cover the distance between his
home and his office is (a) 20 min/h (b) 15 min/h(c) 10 min/h(d) 10 min/h
(a) 48 minutes (b) 60 minutes(c) 42 minutes(d) 62
minutes 10.Rajdhani Express travels 650 km in 5 h and
another 940 km in 10 h. What is the average speed of
3.Ram and Bharat travel the same distance at the train?
rate of 6 km per hour and 10 km per hour
respectively. If Ram takes 30 minutes longer than (a) 1590 km/h (b) 168 km/h(c) 106 km/h(d) 126 km/h
Bharat, the distance travelled by each is
11.Rishikant, during his journey, travels for 20
(a) 6 km (b) 10 km(c) 7.5 km(d) 20 km minutes at a speed of 30 km/h, another 30 minutes at
a
4.Two trains for Mumbai leave Delhi at 6 : 00 a.m. speed of 50 km/h, and 1 hour at a speed of 50 km/h
and 6 : 45 am and travel at 100 kmph and 136 and 1 hour at a speed of 60 km/h. What is the
kmph respectively. How many kilometres from Delhi average velocity?
will the two trains be together?
(a) 51.18 km/h (b) 63 km/h
(a) 262.4 km (b) 260 km(c) 283.33 km(d) 275 km
12.Jayshree goes to office at a speed of 6 km/h and
5 Walking at 3/4 of his normal speed, a man takes returns to her home at a speed of 4 km/h. If she
2(1/2) hours more than the normal time. Find the takes 10 hours in all, what is the distance between
normal time. her office and her home?
(a) 7.5 h (b) 6 h (c) 8 h(d) 12 h (a) 24 km (b) 12 km(c) 10 km(d) 30 km
6 .Alok walks to a viewpoint and returns to the starting 13.A motor car does a journey in 17.5 hours, covering
point by his car and thus takes a total time of the first half at 30 km/h and the second half at
6 hours 45 minutes. He would have gained 2 hours by 40 km/h. Find the distance of the journey.
driving both ways. How long would it have (a) 684 km (b) 600 km(c) 120 km(d) 540 km
taken for him to walk both ways?
14.Sujit covers a distance in 40 minutes if he drives at
(a) 8 h 45 min (b) 7 h 45 min(c) 5 h 30 min(d) 6 h 45 a speed of 60 kilometer per hour on an
min average. Find the speed at which he must drive at to
reduce the time of the journey by 25%?
7 .Sambhu beats Kalu by 30 metres or 10 seconds.
How much time was taken by Sambhu to complete a (a) 60 km/h (b) 70 km/h(c) 75 km/h(d) 80 km/h
race 1200 meters.
15.Manish travels a certain distance by car at the rate
(a) 6 min 30 s (b) 3 min 15 s(c) 12 min 10 s(d) 2 min 5 of 12 km/h and walks back at the rate of 3
s km/h. The whole journey took 5 hours. What is the
distance he covered on the car?
(a) 12 km (b) 30 km(c) 15 km(d) 6 km
24.A and B travel the same distance at the rate of 8
16.Vinay fires two bullets from the same place at an kilometre and 10 kilometre an hour respectively.
interval of 12 minutes but Raju sitting in a train If A takes 30 minutes longer than B , the distance
approaching the place hears the second report 11 travelled by Bis
minutes 30 seconds after the first. What is the
approximate speed of train (if sound travels at the (a) 6 km (b) 10 km (c) 16 km(d) 20 km
speed of 330 metre per second)?
25.Two trains for Patna leave Delhi at 6 a.m. and 6:45
(a) 660/23 m/s (b) 220/7 m/s(c) 330/23 m/s(d) 110/23 a.m. and travel at 98 kmph and 136 kmph
m/s respectively. How many kilometres from Delhi will the
two trains meet?
17.A car driver, driving in a fog, passes a pedestrian (a) 262.4 km (b) 260 km(c) 200 km(d) None of these
who was walking at the rate of 2 km/h in the
same direction. The pedestrian could see the car for 6
minutes and it was visible to him up to a 26.X and Y are two stations 600 km apart. A train
distance of 0.6 km. What was the speed of the car? starts from X and moves towards Y at the rate of 25
(a) 30 km/h (b) 15 km/h(c) 20 km/h(d) 8 km/h km/h. Another train starts from Y at the rate of 35
km/h. How far from X they will cross each other?
18.A journey of 192 km takes 2 hours less by a fast (a) 250 km (b) 300 km(c) 450 km(d) 475 km
train than by a slow train. If the average speed of
the slow train be 16 kmph less than that of fast train, 27.A train requires 7 seconds to pass a pole while it
what is the average speed of the faster train? requires 25 seconds to cross a stationary train
which is 378 metres long. Find the speed of the train.
(a) 32 kmph (b) 16 kmph(c) 12 kmph(d) 48 kmph
(a) 75.6 km/h (b) 75.4 km/h(c) 76.2 km/h(d) 21 km/h
19.A passenger train takes 2 h less for a journey of
300 kilometres if its speed is increased by 5
kmph over its usual speed. Find the usual speed. 28.A boat sails down the river for 10 km and then up
the river for 6 km. The speed of the river flow
(a) 10 kmph(b) 12 kmph(c) 20 kmph(d) 25 kmph is 1 km/h. What should be the minimum speed of the
boat for the trip to take a maximum of 4
20.If Arun had walked 1 km/h faster, he would have hours?
taken
10 minutes less to walk 2 kilometre. What (a) 2 kmph (b) 3 kmph(c) 4 kmph(d) 5 kmph
is Arun’s speed of walking?
29 .A man rows 6 km/h in still water. If the river is
(a) 1 kmph (b) 2 kmph(c) 3 kmph(d) 6 kmph running at 3 km per hour, it takes him 45 minutes
to row to a place and back. How far is the place?
21.A train moves at a constant speed of 120 km/h for (a) 1.12 km (b) 1.25 km(c) 1.6875 km(d) 2.5 km
one kilometre and at 40 kmph for the next one
kilometre. What is the average speed of the train? 30.A boat goes 40 km upstream in 8 h and a distance
of 49 km downstream in 7 h. The speed of the
(a) 48 kmph (b) 50 kmph(c) 80 kmph(d) 60 kmph boat in still water is
22.A car travels 1/3 of the distance on a straight road (a) 5 km/h (b) 5.5 km/h(c) 6 km/h(d) 6.5 km/h
with a velocity of 10 km/h, the next 1/3 with a
velocity of 20 km/h and the last 1/3 with a velocity of Answer
60 km/h. What is the average velocity of the
car for the whole journey? 1. (a) 2. (a)3. (c)4. (c) 5. (a)6. (a)710. (a)8. (a)9 (a)10.
(c)
(a) 18 km/h (b) 10 km/h(c) 20 km/h(d) 15 km/h 11. (a 12. (a)13. (b)14 (d)15. (a)
16. (c)17. (d)
18. (d)19. (d)20. (c) 21. (d) 22. (a)
23.Walking at 3/4 of his usual speed, a man is 16 23. (a)24. (d)25. (d) 26. (a)
minutes 27. (a) 28. (c)29. (c)30. (c)
late for his office. The usual time taken by
him to cover that distance is
(a) 48 minutes (b) 60 minutes(c) 42 minutes(d) 62
minutes
