Time, Speed and Distance
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
A farmer travelled a distance of in . He travelled partly on foot with and partly on bicycle with . The distance travelled on foot is:

The respective ratio between the average speed of a car, a train and a tractor is . The average speed of the train is six times the average speed of the tractor which covers in . What is the sum of the speed of car and train together?

A thief steals a car at . and drives it at The theft is discovered at and the owner sets off in another car at , when will the owner overtake the thief ?

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

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 _____

A car travelled of the time at a speed of , of the time at a speed of and the rest of the journey at a speed of . What is the average speed of the car for the entire journey?

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

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

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

Ramesh goes from X to Y via U, V and W. The time taken by Ramesh to cover these distances in the ratio of . If he takes 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?

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 and and that of slower train is and . After how many second both trains would be clear of each other?

With a speed of . Raghu is able to complete his journey in . If he wants to cover the same distance in , then what should be his new speed?

Two trains of lengths respectively, are running in the same direction on parallel tracks. If the speed of are respectively, then what will be the time taken by them to cross each other?

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

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

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

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

In a race of beats by or . What is the speed of ?

Josh and Mike live 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?

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