SPEED, DISTANCE AND TIME
Practice Question:
1. If a car travels at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, how far will it travel in 3
hours?
2. A train travels a distance of 240 kilometers at a speed of 120 kilometers per
hour. How long will it take to complete the journey?
3. If a person runs at a speed of 45 kilometers per hour, how long will it take to
cover a distance of 500 meters?
4. Judson while driving his car notices that he can count 25 electricity poles in 1
min. If the electricity poles are 40 m apart, then what speed is Judson traveling?
(a) 52.4 km/h
(b) 60 km/h
(c) 57.6 km/h
(d) 48.2 km/h
5. A runs twice as fast as B and B runs thrice as fast as C. The distance covered
by C in 72 minutes will be covered by A in ?
6. Mr Kumar drives to work at a constant speed of 48 kmph. The time taken to
cover the first 60% of the distance is 10 mins more than the time taken to cover
the remaining distance. How far is his office?
7. A person travelled a distance of 50 km in 8 hrs. He covered a part of the
distance on foot at a speed of 4 Km/h and part on a bicycle at a speed of 10
km/h. How much distance did he travel on foot?
8. Akila walked at a speed of 4 km/h from her PG to her office and she came
back from her office to her PG at a speed of 6 km/h. What would be the ratio of
the time taken by Akila in walking from her PG to office to that from PG to
office?
9. A worker reaches his factory 3 mins late, walking at a speed of 5 km/h and if
he walks at a speed of 6 km/h, then he reaches the factory 7 mins early. The
distance of the factory from his house is.
10. A journey of 192 km between two cities takes 2 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
11. If Giri walks at 14 km/h instead of 10 km/h, he would have walked 20 km
more in the same time. The actual distance travelled by Giri is when walking at
14 km/h.
12. In a 500 m race, B starts 45 m ahead of A, but A wins the race while B is
still 35 m behind. What is the ratio of the speeds of A to B assuming both start
at the same time?
13. Amit starts from a point A and walks to another point B and then returns
from B to A by his car and thus takes a total time of 6 h and 45 mins. If he had
driven both ways in his car, then he would have taken 2 hours less. How long
would it take for him to walk both ways?
14. Two persons, A and B are running on a circular track. At the start, B is
ahead of A and their position make an angle of 30𝑜 at the center of the circle.
When A reaches the point diametrically opposite to his starting point, he meets
B. What is the ratio of speeds of A and B, if they are running with uniform
speeds?
15. A man started from home at 14:30 h and drove to village, arriving there
when the village clock indicated 15:15 h. After staying for 25 min, he drove
back by a different route of length 1.25 times the first route at a rate twice as
fast reaching home at 16:00 h. As compared to the clock at home, the village
clock
(a) 10 mins slow
(b) 5 mins slow
(c) 10 mins fast
(d) 5 mins fast
16. If two cars start moving towards each other from two distinct points at the
same time and complete their journey between the points after passing each
other in 4 mins and 16 mins time respectively. Find the ratio of their speeds.
17. Imtiaz starts from Nellai to Madurai and Anbu starts from Madurai to
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Nallai. After passing each other they complete their journey in 3 ℎ𝑟 and 4 ℎ𝑟
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respectively. Find the speed of the Anbu if the speed of the Imtiaz is 24 km/h.
Average Speed.
Practice Question:
1. A cyclist travels from Town A to Town B at an average speed of 24
kilometers per hour. The same cyclist travels from Town B to Town C at an
average speed of 30 kilometers per hour. The distance between town A and B is
24 Kms and the distance between town B and C is 60 Kms. What is the average
speed of the cyclist?
2. A car travels the first one-third of a certain distance with a speed of 10 Km/h.
The next one-third distance with a speed of 20 Km/h and the last one-third
distance with a speed of 60 Km/h. Find the average speed of the car for the
whole journey.
3. Simpu is travelling from Anna Nagar to Mayajal,ECR to watch
Vidamuyarchi in theatre. He is travelling in his bicycle. Since he was very
enthusiastic to watch the movie he was travelling at a speed of 30 Kmph. To
Simpu’s disappointment the tickets were sold out. The disappointed Simpu
decided to come back to Anna Nagar. Since he is disappointed he is cycling
little bit slower. He is cycling at the speed 15 Kmph. What is Simpu’s average
speed.
4. Two cities A and B are 360 km apart. A car goes from city A to B with a
speed of 40 km/h and returns to A with a speed of 60 km/h. What is the average
speed of the car?
5. A car travels from a place X to place Y at an average speed of v km/h, from
Y to X at an average speed of 2v km/h, again from X to Y at an average speed
of 3v km/h and again from Y to X at an average speed of 4v km/h. Then, the
average speed of the car for the entire journey
(a) is less than v km/h
(b) lies between v and 2v km/h
(c) lies between 2v and 3v km/h
(d) lies between 3v and 4v km/h
