Time, Speed and Distance

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Time, Speed and Distance: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Motion, Time, Alligation to Find Average Speed when Distance is Constant & Alligation in Finding Average Speed when Distances are Different etc.

Important Questions on Time, Speed and Distance

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A person can walk a certain distance and ride back on the bike taking a total time of 37 min and the person could walk both ways in 55 min. How long would it take me to ride both ways?

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The ratio between the speeds of two trains is 7 : 8, If the second train runs 400 km in 4 hours, then find the speed of the first train.

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Letters of the word DIRECTOR are arranged in such a way that all the vowels come together. Find total number of arrangements?

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The average age of the Indian football team is 30 years. The average age of 5 of the players is 29 years and that of another set of 5 players, totally different from the first five, is 27 years. If it is the captain who was not included in either of these two group, then find the age of the captain _____.

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Sita sees her friends standing at a distance of 240 m from his position. She increases her speed by 50% and hence takes 20 sec now to reach her.
(i) If she travels at the original speed, how much time will she take?
(ii) What was her original speed ?

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A sum of money is to be distributed among A, B, C, D in the proportion of 5 : 2 : 4 : 3. What is B's share, if C gets, 1000 more than D ?

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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 leak was found in a ship when it was77 km from the shore. It was found that the leak admits 2.25 tones of water in 5.5 min. 92 tones of water will be sufficient to sink the ship. But the pumps can throw out 12 tones an hour. Find the average rate of sailing at which the ship may reach the shore as it begins to sink.

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From a point on a circular track 5 km long, A, B and C started running in the same direction at the same time with speeds of 212  km per hour, 3 km per hour and 2 km per hour respectively. Then on the starting point all three will meet again after

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Walking at the speed of 6 km/hr, a person reaches his office 8 min late. If he walks at the speed of 8 km/hr he reaches his office 3 min early. What is the distance between house and office?

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A train passes a man standing on the platform. If the train is 170 m long and its speed is 72 kmph, how much time it took in doing so?

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A man can cover a certain distance in 3 h 36 min if he walks at the rate of 5 kmph. If he covers the same distance on cycle at the rate of 24 kmph, then the time taken by him is ______

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What should come in place of question mark in the following series:

5, 15, 35, 75, 155, ?

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A race track has a circumference of 3000 m the length of the race is 9000 m. The fastest and the slowest cart meet for the first time after the start of the race at the end of the length in 10 min. All the carts start at the same point and fastest cart moves at twice the speed of the slowest cart, what is the time taken by the fastest cart to finish the race ?

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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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An athlete runs 200 m race in 24 sec. Find his speed.

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A train covers a distance of 3584 km in 2 days 8 hours. If it covers 1440 km on the first day and 1608 km on the second day, by how much does the average speed of the train for the remaining part of the journey differ from that for the entire journey?

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The speed of a truck is 13 the speed of a train. The train covers 1230 km in 5 h. What is the speed of truck?

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A ship is moving at a speed of 30 kmph. To know the depth of the ocean beneath it sends a radio wave which travels at a speed 200 msec. The ship receives the signal after it has moved 500 m. Find the depth of the ocean.