Time, Speed and Distance
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
A Train is running at the average speed . How long will it take to pass a standing man?

A bullock cart has to cover a distance of in . If it covers half of the journey in time, the speed to cover the remaining distance in the time left has to be:

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

The average speed of a train is times the average speed of a car. The car covers a distance of in . How much distance will the trains cover in ?

A man walking at th of his original speed reaches his destination in minutes later than the usual time. Then the usual time is:

During a journey of , a train covers the first with a speed of and completes the remaining distance with a speed of . What is the average speed of the train during the whole journey

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

A man travels on a scooter from to at a speed of and returns from to at . The total journey was performed by him in . Find the distance from to .

A Kinetic Honda covers a distance of in while a car covers the same distance in . What is the ratio of their speeds?

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

With an average speed of a train reaches its destination in time. If it goes with an average speed of it is late by . Find the total journey.

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

If a car travels in and another in , the average speed of the car is:

A train is going in the north direction at a speed of from a point while another train is going in the south direction at a speed of from the same point at the same time. In how much time, the distance between both the trains will be

A thief robbed a shop and ran in a car at a speed of km/hour at am. The Police located the position of the thief and ran after him at a.m. from the shop in a car at km/hour. Find the time at which the thief will be caught?

A train with a speed of crosses a pole in seconds, then find the time taken by the same train to cross the pole with

If A start from P with a speed of at and B starts with a speed of at from Q and the total distance between P and Q is find at what time they will cross each other

Two friends, A and B are standing at points P and Q, respectively. If A starts moving towards point Q from point P with the speed of km/hr. After hours, B starts moving towards point P from point Q with speed km/hr, and they meet at the midpoint of P and Q. Find the time taken by A to go from point P to point Q. if the distance between point P and point Q is km.

A person travels at an average speed of . If he travels at the speed of , then at what speed, he covers the rest of the distance?

Ram and Shyam are travelling from point A to B, which are apart. Travelling at a certain speed ram takes one hour more than Shyam to reach point B. If Ram doubles his speed he will take less than Shyam to reach point B. At what speed was Ram driving from point A to B?
