Travel Graphs

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Mark /7 %

1) A school bus drove to Brean Beach for a school trip. The bus travelled from London at a steady speed
of 60 kilometres per hour (km/h). The distance-time graph below shows the journey.

200 Distance (km)

180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20 Time (hours)

0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4

Find

a) the distance to Brean Beach.

b) the time taken to get there.

c) the distance travelled in 2 hours.

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2) A school bus drove to Robin Hood Beach for a school trip. The distance-time graph below shows the
journey. Work out the average speed of the bus for the whole journey.

350 Distance (km)

315
280
245
210
175
140
105
70
35 Time (hours)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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3) The distance-time graph below shows the journey a business man made from London to Sheffield via
Nottingham. (Leave answers to nearest whole number where necessary).

Distance (km) Sheffield

200
180
160
140
Nottingham
120
100
80
60
40
20
London Time (hours)
-1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Find

a) the distance to Nottingham.

b) the time he spent in Nottingham.

c) at what speed he travelled from Nottingham to Sheffield.

d) his average speed over the whole journey.

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4) The speed-time graph below shows a Aston Martin DB9 accelerating. How fast is the car after 4 secs?

250 Speed (km/h)

225
200
175
150
125
100
75
50
25
Time (secs)
-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

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5) The speed-time graph below shows a old Mini accelerating. How long does it take the car to get to 50
km/h?

100 Speed (km/h)

90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10 Time (secs)

-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

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6) The speed-time graph below shows a Ferrari 288 GTO accelerating. How long does it take the car to
get to 35 km/h?

300 Speed (km/h)

270
240
210
180
150
120
90
60
30
Time (secs)
-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

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7) The speed-time graph below shows the acceleration of a Fiat Uno. Find an estimate for the acceleration
leaving your answer to 1 decimal place.

40 Speed (m/s)
36
32
28
24
20
16
12
8
4
Time (secs)
-2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

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Solutions for the assessment Travel Graphs

1) a) 200 km b) 3.3 hours (3.2 - 3.4)

2) 50 km/h (49 - 51)
c) 120 km (119 - 121)

3) a) 120 km b) 0.5 hours

4) 53 km/h (51 - 55)
c) 40 km/h d) 57 km/h

5) 9.5 secs (9 - 10) 6) 1.8 secs (1.3 - 2.3)

7) 2.5 m/s2 (2.4 - 2.6)

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