HCR24Q05
Time Speed and Distance:
1. Abhishek drives his bike at the speed of 150
km/h. What is the distance covered by him in 3
hours?
(a) 50 km (b) 75 km (c) 450 km (d) 550 km
2. Speed of Karan is 40 km/h and speed of Arjun is
60 km/h. What is the ratio of time taken by each
to cover the same distance?
(a) 3:2 (b) 5:4 (c) 4:5 (d) 1:2
3. Two persons A and B started from two different
places towards each other at the same time. If the
ratio of their speeds be 3:5, then what is the ratio
of distance covered A and B respectively till the
point of meeting?
(a) 1:2 (b) 3:4 (c) 3:5 (d) 5:3
4. In the above question what will be the ratio of
time when they meet?
(a) 5:3 (b) 3:5 (c) 1:1 (d) 1:2
5. A car travels at 30 km/h for the first 2 hours of a
journey and then travels at 40 km/h for the next 2
hours of the journey. Find the ratio of the distance
travelled at the two speeds
(a) 3:4 (b) 1:4 (c) 4:1 (d) 2:5
6. A car moves for 2 hours at a speed of 25 km/h
and another car moves for 3 hours at the same
speed. Find the ratio of distances covered by the
two cars.
(a) 5:2 (b) 2:3 (c) 1:3 (d) 7:3
7. Mumbai Rajdhani express takes 16 hours to
reach Mumbai from Delhi while Swaraj express
takes 20 hours. The ratio of the speeds of both the
trains is:
(a) 1:4 (b) 4:5 (c) 5:4 (d) 3:2
8. The ratio of speeds of A is to B is 2:3 and
therefore A takes 20 minutes more time than B
takes. What is the ratio of time taken by A and B?
(a) 2:3 (b) 2:5 (c) 3:2 (d) 3:5
9. What is the time taken by A (in the above
question)?
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(a) 1 h (b) 1.2 h (c) 0.6 h (d) 30 min
10. Without stoppage, a train travels a certain
distance with average speed of 60 km/h, and with
stoppage, it covers same distance with an average
speed of 40 km/h. On average, how many minutes
per hour does the train stop during the journey?
(a) 20 min/h (b) 15 min/h (c) 10 min/h
(d) 12 min/h
11. Without stoppage, a train travels at an average
speed of 75 km/h and with stoppages it covers the
same distance at an average speed of 60 km/h.
How many minutes per hour does the train stop?
(a) 10 min (b) 12 min (c) 14 min (d) 18 min
12. Harsh and Vijay move towards Hosur starting
from IIM, Bangalore, at a speed of 40 km/h and 60
km/h respectively. If Vijay reaches Hosur 200
minutes earlier than Harsh, what is the distance
between IIM, Bangalore and Hosur?
(a) 600 km (b) 400 km (c) 900 km (d) 200 km
13. A and B travel the same distance at the rate of
8 km/h and 10 km/h respectively. If A takes 30
minutes longer than B, the distance travelled by B
is?
(a) 6 km (b) 10 km (c) 16 km (d) 20 km
14. Akhil travels first half of the distance at 50 m/s
and second half at 75 m/s. The total distance
travelled is 3 km. Find his average speed of travel
for the entire journey.
(a) 60 m/s (b) 62.5 m/s (c) 55 m/s (d) 65 m/s
15. Ratio between speeds of 2 trains is 5:3. If the
first train runs 350 km in 2 hours, then what is the
speed of the second train?
(a) 100 kmph (b) 115 kmph (c) 105 kmph (d) 210
kmph
16. Find the ratio of distances covered by a car
and a cyclist when it is given that the car moves
for 1.5 hours at 30 kmph and the cyclist moves for
1 hour at 25 kmph?
(a) 6:5 (b) 9:5 (c) 3:2 (d) 5:1
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17. Walking 6/7th of his usual speed, a man is 12
minutes too late. The usual time taken by him to
cover that distance is:
(a) 1 hour (b) 1 hour 12 minutes (c) 1 hour 15
minutes (d) 1 hour 20 minutes
18. Walking at ¾ of his normal speed, Abhishek is
16 minutes late in reaching his office. The usual
time taken by him to cover the distance between
his home and office is
(a) 48 minutes (b) 60 minutes (c) 42 minutes
(d) 62 minutes
19. Walking at ¾ of his normal speed, a man takes
2 ½ hours more than the usual time. Find the
normal time.
(a) 7.5 h (b) 6 h (c) 8 h (d) 12 h
20. I started on my bicycle at 7 a.m to reach a
certain place. After going a certain distance, my
bicycle went out of order. Consequently, rested
for 35 minutes and came back to my house
walking all the way. I reached my house at 1 p.m.
If my cycling speed is 10kmph and my walking
speed 1kmph, then on my bicycle I covered a
distance of:
(a) 4.92km (b) 13.44 km (c) 14.375 km
(d) 15.476 km
21. Jayashree goes to office at a speed of 6 km/h
and returns to her home at a speed of 4 km/h. If
she takes 10 hours in all, what is the distance
between her office and her home?
(a) 24 km (b) 12 km (c) 10 km (d) 30 km
22. Manish travels a certain distance by car at the
rate of 12 km/h and walks back at the rate of 3
km/h. The whole journey took 5 hours. What is
the distance he covered on the car?
(a) 12 km (b) 30 km (c) 15 km (d) 6 km
23. A car is 250 metres behind the bus. The car
and bus are moving with the speed of 60 Km/hr
and 35 Km/hr respectively. The car will be ahead
of bus by 250 metres in:
(a) 37 seconds (b) 48 seconds (c) 72 seconds (d) 68
seconds e) none
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24. A car driver, driving in a fog, passes a
pedestrian who was walking at the rate of 2 km/h
in the same direction. The pedestrian could see
the car for 6 minutes and it was visible to himup to
a distance of 0.6 km. What was the speed of the
car?
(a) 30 km/h (b) 15 km/h (c) 20 km/h (d) 8 km/h
25. Mohan walks a certain distance and rides back
in 6 hours and 15 minutes. If he walks both ways
he takes 7 hours and 45 minutes. If mohan rides
both ways, the time which he will take will be:
(a) 4 hours (b) 19/4 hours (c) 9/2 hours (d)17/4
hours e) none
26. Supriya runs a marathon race in 50 minutes at
an average speed of 48 km/h. In order to set a
national record, she needs to win the race in 40
minutes. Considering that her speed remains
constant, at what minimum speed should she run
to set the record?
(a) 70 km/h (b) 60 km/h (c) 55 km/h (d) 50 km/h
27. Roorkee express normally reaches its
destination at 50 km/h in 30 hours. Find the speed
at which it travels to reduce the time by 10 hours?
(a) 38 km/h (b) 76 km/h (c) 75 km/h (d) 60 km/h
28. Narayan Murthy walking at a speed of 20 km/h
reaches his college 10 minutes late. Next time he
increases his speed by 5 km/h, but finds that he is
still late by 4 minutes. What is the distance of his
college from his house
(a) 20 km (b) 6 km (c) 12 km (d) None of these
29. A man reduces his speed from 20 km/h to 18
km/h. So he takes 10 minutes more than than the
normal time. What is the distance travelled by
him?
(a) 30 km (b) 25 km (c) 50 km (d) 36 km
30. Osaka walks from his house at 5 km/h and
reaches his office 10 minutes late. If this speed
had been 6 km/h he would have reached 15
minutes early. The distance of his office from his
house is:
(a)15km (b)12.5 km (c)10.5 km (d)18km
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