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Two men set out at the same time to walk towardo each other from points A and B; 72 km apart. The first man walks at the speed of 4 kmph while the second walks 2 km in the first hour, 2 km in the second hour, 3 km in the third hour, and so on. The two men will meet

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Important Questions on Ratio and Proportion

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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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A train 100 m long passes a platform 100 m long in 10 seconds. The speed of the train is:
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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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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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Two places P and Q are 162 km apart. A train leaves P for Q and simultaneously another train leaves Q for P : They meet at the end of 6 h. If the former train travels 8 km/h faster than the other, then speed of train from Q is
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If a speed of 313 m/s is converted into km/hr, what is the value?
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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 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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In a 100 m race, A runs at a speed of 53 m/s. If a gives a start of 4 m to B and still beats him by 12 seconds, what is the speed of B?
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A vehicle with mileage 15 km/L contains 2 L of fuel. The vehicle gets some defect as a result of which 5 L of fuel gets wasted per hour, when the engine is on. With what minimum speed, the vehicle has to move to travel 20 km with the existing amount of fuel, if it travels with a uniform speed?

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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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Places A and B are 144 km apart. Two cars start 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 98hours. The speed (in km/h) of the car moving at a faster speed is:
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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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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 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 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 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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Consider an equilateral triangle ABC as given in the following diagram:

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Two people start at the same time from points A and B with speeds 30 km per hour and 20 km per hour respectively, and move on the sides of the triangle in the clockwise direction. They meet each other for the first time at

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A bus covers a distance of 1.8 km in 3 min. How much faster (in msec) is it than a young athlete who runs 200 m in 25 sec?
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A train crosses a pole in 12 s, and a bridge of length 170 m in 36 s. Then the speed of the train is: