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A bird is sitting on a train A moving at a speed of 40 kmph. It sees another train B at a Distance of 200 m with Speed of 60 kmph coming from the opposite direction on the same rail track. It flies with an average speed of 10 kmph and sits on another train. Again immediately it flies back to the first train and again to the second train and so on. It does so before the two trains crash. What is the total distance travelled by the bird?

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Important Questions on Direct and Indirect Proportions

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A train 'A' of 180 metres is coming at the rate of 72 km/hr. Another train 'B' of 120 metres is coming from the opposite direction at the rate of 108 km/hr. How long will they take to cross one another?
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A man standing on a railway platform noticed that a train took 21s to cross the platform (this means the time elapsed from the moment the engine enters the platform till the last compartment leaves the platform) which is 88m long, and that it took 9s to pass him. Assuming that the train was moving with uniform speed, what is the length of the train in meters?
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A man went to his office on cycle at the rate of 10 km/hr and reached late by 6 minutes. When he increased the speed by 2 km/hr, he reached 6 minutes before time. What is the distance between his office and his departure point ?
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Ali travels a distance of 300 m in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. What is his speed in kmph?

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The minute hand of a clock overtakes the hour hand after every 72 minutes of correct time. How much time does the clock lose or gain in a day of normal time?
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100 kms is the distance between the stations A and B. One train departed from A towards B at the rate of 50 km/hr and from B towards A at the rate of 75 km/hr. Both the trains departed simultaneously. At what distance station A, both the trains will cross one-another ?
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Gopal covers 100 km. He travels at a speed of 60 kmph for the first 40 km and the rest of the distance at 40 kmph. What is his average speed in kmph?

1. 44.20
2. 45.20
3. 46.20
4. 47.20

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A shell of mass 0.04 kg is fired by a gun of mass 120 kg. If the muzzle speed of the shell is 90 m/s, what is the recoil speed of the gun?
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What is the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock when the clock shows 4 hours 40 minutes?
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There are two stations X and Y, 1320 km apart. A train starts from station X at 6 a.m. and moves at an average speed of 60 km/hr. At 2 p.m. another train starts from Y towards X and moves at an average speed of 80 km/hr. When do they meet?
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A motorcycle covers 60 km in 3 hours. Its speed is doubled. What distance will it cover in next 1 hour ?
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The distance between two stations, A and B,is 575 km. A train starts from station 'A'at 3:00 p.m. and moves towards station 'B' at an average speed of 50 km/hr.Another train starts from station 'B'at 3:30 p.m.and moves towards station 'A' at an average speed of 60 km/hr.How far from station 'A' will the trains meet?

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What time will a runner take to run a distance of 8 km at a speed of 15 km/hr?
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If a speed of 313 m/s is converted into km/hr, what is the value?
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A bus travels at a speed of 75 km/h for 45 minutes and then travels at a speed of 90 km/h for 45 minutes. What distance will it cover in one and half hour?
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A man covers a certain distance in 10 minutes with the speed of 15km/hr. If he wants to cover the same distance in 7 minutes, then what should be his speed?

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A man uses train and car to reach his office. If he travels 10km by car and the rest of the distance by train then he reaches his office in ‘t’ hours. If he travels exactly opposite (10 km by train, and the rest by car), he reaches the office in (t+0.5 hours). If the speeds of train and car are respectively 50km/hr and 40km/hr, then how much distance does he travel to reach his office? 
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Two persons ride towards each other from two places 55 km apart, one riding at 12 km/h and the other at 10 km/h . When will they be 11 km apart?
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A train running at 48 km/h crosses a man going with the speed of 12km/h, in the same direction, in 18 secondsand passes a woman coming from the opposite direction in 12 seconds. The speed (in km/h)  of the woman is :
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Two trains are running opposite each other. Speeds of both trains are 112 km/hr and 115 km/hr. Find the relative speed of both trains with respect to each other.