Average Speed and Relative Speed

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Average Speed and Relative Speed: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Relative Speed in Same Direction, Relative Speed in Opposite Direction,Proportionalities Implicit in the Equation of Motion and Equation of Motion when Distance is Constant etc.

Important Questions on Average Speed and Relative Speed

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A person travels equal distance with the speed of 3 kmph, 4 kmph and 5 kmph and takes a total time of 47 min. Find the total distance.

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A motorist travels to a place 150 km away at an average speed of 50 kmph and returns at 30 kmph. His average speed for the whole journey in kmph is _____

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A farmer travelled a distance of 61 km in 9 hr. He travelled partly on foot with 4 km/hr and partly on bicycle with 9 km/hr. The distance travelled on foot is:

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रमेश 4 किमी. प्रति घण्टा की चाल से पैदल जाता है उसके 4 घण्टे के बाद दिनेश साइकिल द्वारा 10 किमी. प्रति घण्टा की चाल से उसका पीछा करता है तो बताओ दिनेश रमेश को कितनी दूरी पर पकड़ लेगा ?

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A thief steals a car at 2.30 pm and drives it at 60 kmph. The theft is discovered at 3 pm and the owner sets off in another car at 75 kmph when will he overtake the thief ?

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मोहन, अनु को 30 मीटर या 10 सैकण्ड़ से हराता है तो मोहन द्वारा 1200 मीटर की दूरी की दौड़ को पूरा करने में कितना समय लगेगा?

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The price of 20 saress and 4 shirts is ₹ 1600. With the same money one can buy 1 sarees and 6 shirts. If one wants to buy 12 shirts, how much shall one have to pay?

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दो समान लम्बाई की रेलगाड़ियां समांतर रेखा में सामान दिशा में क्रमश: 92 किमी/घंटा और 72 किमी/घंटा की चाल से दौड़ती है l तेज गति वाली रेलगाड़ी धीमी गति वाली रेलगाड़ी को 54 सेकंड में पार करती हैं l प्रत्येक रेलगाड़ी की लम्बाई ज्ञात करें |

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Six pipes are fitted to a water tank. Some of these are filling pipes, others are emptying pipes. Each filling pipes can fill the tank in 9 hrs and each waste pipe can empty the tank in 6 hrs. On opening all the pipes in the empty tank is filled in 9 hrs. Find the number of filling pipes?

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An article is listed at 65. A customer bought this article for 56.16 with two successive discounts of which one is 10%. The other discount of this discount scheme that was allowed by the shopkeeper is equal to_____.

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A train leaves a station A at 7 am and reaches another station B at 11 am. Another train leaves B at 8 am and reaches A at 11.30. The two trains cross one another at

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एक लड़का 4 किमी./घण्टा की गति से चले तो वह 9 मिनट देरी से स्कूल पहुंचता है यदि वह 5 किमी./घण्टा की गति से चले तो 9 मिनट जल्दी पहुंच जाता है उसके स्कूल तक की दूरी है ?

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Sarita and Julie start walking from the same place in the opposite directions. If Julie walks at a speed of 52 km/hr. and  Sarita at a speed of  2 km/hr, in how much time will they be 18 km apart?

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If a man walks 20 km at 5 km/hr he will be late by 40 minutes.If he walks at 8 km per hr.How early from the fixed time will he reach ?

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A thief is noticed by a policeman from a distance of 200 m. The thief starts running and the policeman chases him. The thief and the policeman run at the rate of 10 km and 11 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 6 minutes?

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एक बस एक कार का पीछा कर रही है जो बस से 5 किमी.आगे  है। उनकी चाल क्रमशः 90 किमी/घंटा तथा 75 किमी/ घंटा  है। बस कार को कितने मिनट के पश्चात पकड़ लेगी?

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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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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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P, Q, R run on a circular track at speeds of 10 m/s20 m/s25 m/s respectively. If they start from the same point in the same direction at the same time and P covers 1 km when they meet again for the first time at the starting point, then the total distance covered by Y (in km) is?

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Distance between two stations x and y is 778 km. A train covers the journey from x to y at a speed of 84 kmph and returns to x with a speed of 56 kmph. Find the average speed of the train (in kmph) for the whole journey.