TIME & DISTANCE

1. At what speed does a person walk, who passes 70 km more than the other. The distance
through a street 600 meter long in 5minutes? between two stations is
a. 9/5 km/h b. 18/5 km/h a. 350 b. 210
c. 27/5 km/h d. 36/5 km/h c. 300 d. 140
9. A father and son want to travel from A and B. If
SAME TIME the speed of father and son is 12 km/h and 18
2. A policeman saw a thief from a distance of 200m km/h. son start after 39 min of father and reach
and started running towards him. If the speed of 21 min before father reach B. find distance
the policeman and thief are 12 km/h & 10 km/h between A and B.
respectively. Find the distance the thief had run a. 36 b. 20
before get caught. c. 48 d. 40
a. 1km b. 2km
c. 3km d. 4km If two person A and B starts from two places X
3. Radha & Shyam with speed 15 km/h and 21 and Y simultaneously with speed 𝑺𝟏 .and 𝑺𝟐 .
km/h start to meet each other. At time of They both cross each other at a point Z, after
meeting Shyam has travelled 500 m more than which if A takes 𝑡1 time to reach Y and B takes 𝑡2
Radha. Find distance between them. time to reach X. Then ,
a. 3000 m b. 2500 m • Total distance between A and B = 𝑆1 𝑡1 + 𝑆2 𝑡2
c. 6000 m d. 4500 m
4. The distance between A & B is 60 km. Two 𝑆1 𝑡2
• =√
persons P & Q start from A simultaneously for B 𝑆2 𝑡1
with speed of P is 4 km/h less than Q. Q reach at • Time of meet = 𝑡 = √𝑡1 . 𝑡2
B and returns immediately and meet P from the
distance 12km from B. find speed of A& B.
a. 2 & 6 b. 4 & 8 10. Shyam starts to walk from A towards B at 10 a.m.
c. 6 & 12 d. 8 & 12 and Radha starts to walk from B towards A at 10
5. A person can travel certain distance in 30 hours.
a.m. and after meeting at C they both reach their
If he decreases his speed by 1/15, he would
destinations in 24 & 54 minutes. Find the time
cover 10 km less in same time. Find the speed of
they meet at C
that person.
a. 10.30 b. 10.32
a. 5.0 km/h b. 7.5 km/h c. 10.40 d. 10.36
c. 10.0 km/h a. 2.5 km/h 11. Radha walks with the speed of 45 km/h from A
to meet Shyam and Shyam walks towards her
SAME DISTANCE
from B. After meeting each other at C they reach
6. A train goes with 7/11 of its original speed and
each other’s home in 4 hours and 9 hours
takes 22 hours. If it goes with original speed how
respectively. Find the distance between A and B
many hours will be saved.
and speed of Shyam.
a. 16 b. 20
a. 240 km, 10 b. 360 km, 20
c. 8 d. 12
km/h km/h
7. A boy goes to school at a speed of 5 km/h and
c. 450 km, 30 d. 540 km, 40
returns at speed of 6 km/h. if he takes 5 hours 30 km/h km/h
min in going and coming back. What is the 12. A bus running at a speed of 30 km/h leaves TVM
distance between his home and school? at 10 am and another bus running at a speed of
a. 16 b. 15 40 km/h leaves the same place at 3 p.m. in the
c. 20 d. 12 same direction. How many kilometres from TVM
8. Two trains start at the same time from Aligarh
will they be together.
and Delhi and proceed towards each other at the
a. 600 km b. 500 km
rate of 14 km/h and 21 km/h respectively. When c. 300 km d. 700 km
they meet, it is found that one train has travelled
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13. Speed of a bus is 45 km/h if it stops few 21. A 100 m long train with a speed of 30 km/h can
min/hours then average speed is 30 km/h. Find cross a man in how much time
the average halt in min per hour a. 10 sec b. 12
a. 16 b. 15 c. 15 d. 18
c. 20 d. 12 22. A train running at a speed of 72 km/h crossed a
260 m platform in 23 sec. find the length of
RELATIVE SPEED train?
14. The distance between two cities A and B is 330 a. 250 b. 150
km. A train starts from A at 8 a.m. and travels c. 200 d. 125
towards B at 60 km/h. Another train starts from 23. Two trains for Delhi leaves Jaipur at 8:30 am and
B at 9 a.m. and travels towards A at 75 km/h. At 9:00 am and travel at 60 km/h. and 75 km/h.
what time do they meet respectively. At what time will they meet?
a. 10 a.m. b. 10:30 a.m. a. 10:00 b. 12:00
c. 11 a.m. d. 11:30 a.m. c. 10:30 d. 01:15
15. A man covers certain distance with 3 km/h and 24. A train travelling 25 km/h leaves Delhi at 09:00
come back with 2 km/h. He takes 5 hours to go am, another train travelling 35 km/h at 02:00
and come back. Find the distance? pm in the same direction. How many km from
a. 10 b. 6 Delhi will they meet together?
c. 12 d. 5 a. 437.5 b. 467.5
16. A truck crosses a man moving along the road at 6 c. 430.5 d. 456.5
km/h. The man could see the truck up to 2 min. 25. Two train’s starts at same time from two stations
find the speed of the truck, at the time of towards each other at 20 km/h and 25 km/h.
disappearance the distance of truck to man is 1.2 when they meet the faster train cover 80 km
km? more distance than other. Find the distance.
a. 42 km/h b. 54 km/h a. 450 b. 720
c. 36 km/h d. 40 km/h c. 700 d. 800
17. A car is 120 m behind the bus. In how much time 26. Two trains A and B are 110 km apart. One train
will be 760 m ahead of the bus if their speeds are starts from A at 7:00 am and travel towards B at
48 km/h and 30 km/h. 20 km/h. another train starts from B at 8:00am
a. 100 sec b. 176 sec towards A at 25 km/h. At what time will they
c. 156 sec d. 270 sec meet?
18. A man takes 6:30 hours in walking a certain a. 10:00 b. 11:00
distance and riding back on horse. If he rides c. 12:00 d. 01:00
both sides on horse, he would have saved 2-hour 27. A person starts to walk from A at 7 am and
10 minute. How much time he takes on walking reaches at B at 10 am and a person from B starts
both sides. to walk at 7 am and reaches at A at 1 pm. Find
a. 8:40 b. 8:30 the time at which they will meet.
c. 9:00 d. 9:30 a. 10 am b. 9:30 am
19. A person has to cover 360 km distance. If he c. 9 am d. 8:30 am
increases his speed by 10 km/h he reaches 3 28. A person covers a distance of 80 km in 8 hours.
hours early. Find his initial speed. Some part of this journey is completed at the
speed of 8 km/h and the rest at 16 km/h. Find
a. 10 b. 50
c. 30 d. 90 distance covered at both speeds respectively
a. 64, 16 b. 50, 30
c. 68, 12 d. 48, 32
PROBLEMS BASED ON TRAIN
29. Distance between two stations is 450 km. A train
20. If a train with a speed of 60 km/h cross a pole in
from A starts moving towards B at the speed of
30 second. Find the length of train? 15 km/h another train B starts moving towards
a. 250 b. 500 A 20 minute before the first train with the speed
c. 750 d. 125
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of 20 km/h. Find at what distance from A will c. 45 d. 42.5
they meet each other. 37. A bus travels for 7 hours the first half at 30 km/h
a. 100 b. 180 and the second half at 40 km/h. Find the
c. 190 d. 170 distance.
30. In a 100 m running race A runs at a speed of 5 a. 240 b. 230
km/h. He gives a start of 8 m to B and still c. 250 d. 260
defeats him by 8 sec. Find speed of B? 38. A car travels the first one third of a certain
a. 23/20 b. 26/20 distance with a speed of 10 km/h. The next one –
c. 41/20 d. 34/20 third with a speed of 20 km/h and last one-third
31. A train can cross 2 men going along the railway with a speed of 60 km/h. then the average speed
track at 4 km/h and 5 km/h in same direction in over the whole journey is
10 sec and 12 sec. Find length of the train. a. 18 b. 24
a. 50/3 b. 40/3 c. 30 d. 36
c. 70/3 d. 25/3 39. A man travels from A to B at 20 km/h and he
32. In what time will a 220 m long train moving with come back from B to A at 30km/h and he again
the speed of 50 km/h cross another 180 m long travel from A to B at 40km/h. Find the average
moving train with the speed of 40 km/h when speed of the whole journey.
moving in opposite direction? a. 360/13 b. 240/13
a. 4 sec b. 8 sec c. 380/13 d. 300/13
c. 16 sec d. 32 sec 40. A child goes around an equilateral triangular
33. Distance between any two poles beside a train is park. From A to B his speed is 10km/h, from B to
50 m. A person sitting in the train starts counting C his speed is 12km/h and from C to A his speed
the poles. If the speed of the train is 45 km/h is 15km/h. Find his average speed.
then find the number of poles he will count in 4 a. 6km/h b. 12 km/h
hours. c. 18 km/h d. 24km/h
a. 3600 b. 2400 41. A child goes around a square park. His speed
c. 3601 d. 2401 while going from A to B is 10km/h, from B to C
34. A person covers a distance of 300 km partly by his speed is 12km/h from C to D his speed is
train & partly by car. If he travels 60 km by train 15km/h and from D to A his speed is 20km/h.
and rest by car it takes him 4 hours to cover that Find his average speed.(km/h)
distance and if he covers 100 km by train and a. 20⁄3 b. 10⁄3
rest by car it takes him 4 hours 10 minutes to c. 40⁄3 d. 80⁄3
cover that distance. Find out the speed of train &
car.
a. 60 & 80 b. 80 & 100
c. 80 & 60 d. 100 & 80
35. A person travels 120 km by a steamer, 450 km
by train and 60 km by horse. The total journey
took 13 hours 30 minutes. If the rate of the train
is 3 times that of horse and of steamer is twice
that of horse. Find speed of train
a. 60 b. 90
c. 45 d. 120

AVERAGE SPEED
36. A person covers a certain distance at the speed of
60 km/h and returns to starting point at a speed
of 40 km/h. find the average speed of the person
for the whole journey.
a. 50 b. 48
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