Time, Speed and Distance

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Time, Speed and Distance: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Speed of an Object, Conversion between Kilometre Per Hour to Miles Per Second, Alligation in Finding Average Speed when Distances are Different, and Motion.

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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How long does a train 110 m long, running at the rate of 36 kmph take to cross a bridge of length 132 m?

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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 train running at a certain speed crosses a stationary engine in 20 seconds. To find out the speed of the train, which of the following information is necessary ?

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A bus driver wants to travel a distance of200 km. He travels with the speed of40 km/hr. He takes rest at 3Different hotels for15 minutes, 30 minutes and15 minutes, respectively. Does he start his journey at 9.00 p.m. At what time does he reach his final destination?

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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 300 m long train is running at a speed of 35 km/hr. Another train 200 m long is coming from the opposite direction at a speed of 25 km/hr. Then what is the time taken by both trains to cross each other?

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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 person walks a distance in 114 days  when he rests 9 hours a day. How long will he take to walk twice the distance, if he walk twice as fast and rests twice as long each day as before?

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A man in a train notices that he can count 21 telephone posts in one minute. If they are known to be 50 m apart, then at what speed is the train travelling?

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A train covers 1830 km distance. The speed of the train is more, than twice the time taken to cover the distance by 1. What is the respective ratio of speed of the train and the time taken to cover the distance?

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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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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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Starting from his house one day, a student walks at a speed of 2.5 kmph and reaches his school 6 minutes late. The next day at the same time he increases his speed by 1 kmph and reaches the school 6 minutes early. How far is the school from his house?

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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: