Time, Speed and Distance

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Time, Speed and Distance: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Speed of an Object, Time, Speed and Distance, Distance Covered in a Journey, Relationship between Time, Speed and Distance, Proportionalities Implicit in the Equation of Motion, Time, Motion, HOTs on Time, etc.

Important Questions on Time, Speed and Distance

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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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The respective ratio between the average speed of a car, a train and a tractor is 3:6:1. The average speed of the train is six times the average speed of the tractor which covers 175 km in 7 hours. What is the sum of the speed of car and train together?

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A thief steals a car at 10.30 a.m. and drives it at 60km/hr. The theft is discovered at 11:00 a.m and the owner sets off in another car at 75km/hr , when will the owner overtake the thief ?

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Two cyclists start from the same place in opposite directions. One goes towards north at 18 kmph and the other goes towards south at 20 kmph. What time will they take to be 47.5 km apart?

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A certain distance is covered at a certain speed. If half of this distance is covered in double the time, the ratio of the two speeds is _____

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A car travelled 30% of the time at a speed of 20 km/hr, 40% of the time at a speed of 30 km/hr and the rest of the journey at a speed of 40 km/hr. What is the average speed of the car for the entire journey?

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Walking at 45 of its usual speed, a man is 10 minutes late. Find the usual time to cover the journey ?

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A car driver travels from the plains to the hill stations, which are 108 km apart at an average speed of 18km/hr. In the return trip, he covers the same distance at average speed of 36 km/hr. Find the average speed of the car cover the entire distance of 500 km?

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A train can travel 20% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time and reach point B, 75 km away from A at the same time. On the way, however, the train lost about 12.5 minutes while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is:

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Ramesh goes from X to Y via U, V and W. The time taken by Ramesh to cover these distances in the ratio of 5 : 3 : 2 : 5. If he takes 5 hours to go from X to Y, then what is the differences between the time taken by him to go from U to V and that from W to Y?

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Two trains are standing next to each other with their engines in same line. They start moving simultaneously. The length and speed of faster train is 375 m and 63 kmph and that of slower train is 450 m and 45 kmph. After how many second both trains would be clear of each other?

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With a speed of 48 km/h. Raghu is able to complete his journey in 2 hours 28 min. If he wants to cover the same distance in 1 hour 36 min, then what should be his new speed?

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Two trains X and Y of lengths 450 meters and 550 meters respectively, are running in the same direction on parallel tracks. If the speed of X and Y are 58 km/h and 86 km/h respectively, then what will be the time taken by them to cross each other?

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A train is to cover 370 km at a uniform speed. After running 100 km, the train could run at a speed 5 kmph less than its normal speed due to some technical fault. The train got delayed by 36 minutes. What is the normal speed of the train (in kmph)?

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One fifth of the journey is covered at a speed of 30 km per hour, One forth of the journey at the speed of 25 km per hour and the rest at the 60 km per hour. What is the average speed in kilometre per hour for the whole journey?

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X and Y start at the same time to ride from place A to place B, which is 80 km away from A. X travel 4 km per hour slower than Y. Y reaches place B and at the at once turn back meeting X 16 km from place B. Y's speed (in km/h) is ______.

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Owing to heavy traffic on the route, a man finds that his speed is reduced by 25% today with respect to normal days. As a result, he reaches his office 20 min late than normal. How much time did he take today to reach the office?

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In a race of 100 m, A beats B by 20 m or 4 s. What is the speed of A ?

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Josh and Mike live 13 km apart. Yesterday, Josh started to ride his bicycle towards Mike's house. A little later Mike started to ride his bicycle towards Josh's house. When they met, Josh had ridden for twice the length of time as Mike and at four-fifths of Mike's rate. How many kilometre had Mike ridden when they met?

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In a race, Dipesh beats Himanshu by 120 metres, Himanshu beats Hardik by 150 metres and Dipesh beats Hardik by 240 metres. If they all run a 2000 metres race, then find what distance will be covered by Hardik (in metres) in the time Dipesh covers 1350 metres.