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P runs a km in 4 min and Q in 4 min 10 sec. How many metres start must P give Q so that the race may end in a dead heat?

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Important Questions on Ratio and Proportion

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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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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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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 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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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. 

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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 car travels a distance with 20% less speed, then it will reach 15 minutes late. What is the usual time(in minutes) taken by the car to travel the same distance?
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If a speed of 313 m/s is converted into km/hr, what is the value?
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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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A truck moving at a constant speed covers a distance of 245 m in 50 s. What is the speed of the truck?
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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 train running with a speed of 18 km/h, crosses an electric pole. If the length of the train is 540 meters, then what is the time taken by the train to cross the pole?
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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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 A van covers 25 km at the rate of 20 kmph and again a distance of 80 km at the rate of 25 kmph. Find the average speed of the van (in kmph) for the whole journey. 

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Find the speed of the bike in m/sec which covers a distance of 4×104 m in 10-2 seconds.

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A person covers a certain distance in 6 hours. if travels at 40 km/hour. If he has to cover the same distance in 4 hours, then his speed must be:
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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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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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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?