TIME, SPEED AND DISTANCE-2

1.A person travels 600 km by train at 80km/hr, 800 km by ship at 40 km/hr 500 km by aeroplane at
400 km/hr and 100 km by car at 50km/hr. What is the average speed for the entire distance ?
5 5
(1) 65 123 km hr ./ . (2) 60 km./hr. (3) 60 123 km hr ./ . (4) 62 km./hr.

2.A train moves with a speed of 30 kmph for 12 minutes and for next 8 minutes at a speed of 45
kmph. Find the average speed of the train:
(1) 37.5 kmph (2) 36 kmph (3) 48 kmph (4) 30 kmph
3. A man covers half of his journey at 6km/hr and the remaining half at 3km/hr. His average speed is
(1) 9 km/hr (2) 4.5 km/hr (3) 4 km/hr (4) 3 km/hr
4. A man goes from A to B at a uniform speed of 12 kmph and returns with a uniform speed of 4
kmph His average speed (in kmph) for the whole journey is :
(1) 8 (2) 7.5 (3) 6 (4) 4.5
5. A man travels a distance of 24 km at 6 kmph. Another distance of 24 km at 8 kmph and a third
distance of 24 km at 12 kmph. His average speed for the whole journey (in kmph) is
2 10
(1) 8 3 (2) 8 (3) 2 13 (4) 9

6. A man completes 30 km of a journey at the speed of 6 km/hr and the remaining 40 km of the
journey in 5 hours. His average speed for the whole journey is
4
(1) 7 km/hr (2) 6 km/hr (3) 8 km/hr (4) 7.5 km/hr.
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7. A runs twice as fast as B and B runs thrice as fast as C. The distance covered by C in 72 minutes,
will be covered by A in :
(1) 18 minutes (2) 24 minutes (3) 16 minutes (4) 12 minutes
8. In a 100m race, Kamal defeats Bimal by 5 seconds. If the speed of Kamal is 18 Kmph, then the
speed of Bimal is
(1) 15.4 kmph (2) 14.5 kmph (3) 14.4 kmph (4) 14 kmph
9. Walking at 3 4 of his usual speed, a man reaches his office 20 minutes late. Then his usual time
for walking to his office is :
(1) 1 hour (2) 30 minutes (3) 45 minutes (4) 40 minutes
10. Due to inclement weather, an air plane reduced its speed by 300 km/hr, and reached the
destination of 1200 km late by 2hrs. Then the schedule duration of the flight was
(1) 1 hour (2) 1.5 hours (3) 2 hours (4) 2.5 hours
11.Two donkeys are standing 400 metres apart. First donkey can run at a speed of 3 m/sec and the
second can run at 2 m/sec. If two donkeys run towards each other after how much time (in
seconds) will they bump into each other?
(1) 60 (2) 80 (3) 400 (4) 40
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12. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For
how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?
(1) 9 (2) 10 (3) 12 (4) 20
13. A person has to cover 720km distance. If he decreases his speed by 12 km/h, he reaches 2 hr
late. Find the ratio of his initial and final time to reach the destination respectively.(TCS NQT)
(1). 4:5 (2) 7:9 (3) 5:6 (4). 6:7
14. A motor cyclist sets out for a journey of length 50km. After 42 mins it is observed that he has
covered 7/18 of the remaining distance. With how much speed should he travel the remaining
distance, so that his average speed for the entire journey is 31.25 km/h? .( .(TCS NQT)
(1) 45 (2) 36 (3) 40 (4) 30
15. Sindhu, Madhavi and Jayanthi are participating in a 3 x 900 metres relay race. Sindhu covered
her distance in 3 minutes. Madhavi covered her distance in 4 minutes. How much time should
Jayanathi take to finish the race to maintain the team’s average speed at 4 m/s? .(TCS NQT)
(1). 4 minutes (2). 5.25 minutes (3). 4.25 minutes (4) 3.75 minutes
16. Akshat’s walking speed is 5 km/h. The bus stop is 1 kilometre away from his house. Akshat walks
to the bus stop and then takes a bus to school. The speed of the bus is 40 Km/h. Akshat’s school is
10 Kilometers away from the bus stop. How much time will Akshat take to reach his school form his
house, if he boards a bus as soon as he reaches the bus stop? .(TCS NQT)
(1) 20 minutes (2) 34 minutes (3) 27 minutes (4) 30 minutes
17. The ratio of the speed of a bus and a car is 2:5. The car covers a distance of 280 km in some time
and the bus covers a distance of d km less in the same time. What is the distance covered by the
bus?.(TCS NQT)
(1) 132 km (2) 168 km (3) 112 km (4) 144 km
18. A car can cover a distance in 4 hour at speed 60 kmph then by what percent should the speed of
car be increased to cover the same distance in 2.5 hr?(SBI CLERK)
(1) 60% (2) 40% (3) 50% (4) 100% (5) 75%
19. A person travels half of the distance at the speed of x km/h and remaining half of the distance at
4x km/h. Find the value of ‘x’ if the average speed is 36.8 km/h? (SBI CLERK)
(1) 21 (2) 25 (3) 24 (4) 23 (5) 20
20. The speeds of John and Max are 30 km/h and 40 km/h. Initially Max is at a place L and John is at
a place M. The distance between L and M is 650 km. John started his journey 3 hours earlier than
Max to meet each other. If they meet each other at a place P somewhere between L and M, then
the distance between P and M is (SBI CLERK)
(1) 220 km (2) 250 km (3) 330 km (4) 320 km (5) None of these