TIME, SPEED AND DISTANCE

BASIC TSD QUESTIONS: 1] 200m 2] 250m 3] 400m 4] 360m

1. Vivek drives by car covering 300 km in 4 hrs. If the
speed of the car is decreased by 20 km/hr, how
8. Bangalore and Madurai are two stations 390 kms
much time does it take to cover a distance of 440
apart. A train starts from Bangalore at 10 a.m. and
km.
travels towards Madurai at 65 kmph. Another train
1] 5 hrs 2] 8 hrs
starts from Madurai at 11 a.m. and travels towards
3] 10 hrs 4] 13 hrs
Bangalore at 35 kmph. At what time do the trains
meet each other?
1] 2:00 p.m. 2] 2:15 p.m.
2. When travelled at two-third of his usual speed,
3] 3:15 p.m. 4] 2:45 p.m.
Deepak reaches his office 15 minutes late. When
travelled at five-fourth of his usual speed, he reaches
9. The distance between Asha’s home and Fashion
his office ‘x’ minutes early. What is the value of ‘x’?
Mall is 20 km.Asha starts in a car from her home to
1] 20 2]15 3] 12 4] 6
the Fashion Mall at a speed of 60 kmph. At the same
time a pigeon starts flying from Fashion mall towards
3. Two road rollers R1 and R2 start a race. By the time
Asha’s home at 72 kmph.As soon as the pigeon
R1 covers half the total distance, R 2 covers only one-
meets Asha’s carit flies back to the Fashion Mall.The
third of that distance. By what percentage should R2
pigeon keeps on flying from Fashion mall to Asha’s
increase its speed such that both of them reach the
car repeatedly till Asha reaches the Fashion mall.
destination at the same time?
What is the distance covered by the pigeon (in km)?
1] 300% 2] 400% 3] 200% 4] 100%
(Assume that there is a straight road that connects
Asha’s home and the mall)
1] 6 2] 18 3] 20 4] 24
AVERAGE SPEED
TRAINS:
4. Consider two cities A and B at a distance of 240 km
from each other. Bob travels from A to B at an 10. How long does a train 150 m long running at 54
average speed 40 kmph and return journey at an kmph take to cross a tunnel 195 m in length?
average speed 60kmph. Determine his average 1] 10 sec 2] 13 sec 3] 23 sec 4] 29 sec
overall journey speed?
1] 40 kmph 2] 60 kmph 11. Two trains 127 m long and 113 m long are running in
3] 50 kmph 4] 48 kmph opposite directions, the first at 35 kmph and the
second at 37 kmph. In what time (in seconds) will
5. Arjun planned to travel to his favourite destination in they completely clear each other from the moment
three different transport modes.He travels 50 km by they start crossing each other?
1] 12 2] 15 3] 16 4] 11
car, at a speed of 70 km/hr. He covers next 100 km by
train at 150 km/hr and rest 400 km, he covers by 12. A train 450m long is moving at a speed of 45 m/s. A
flight travelling at a speed of 800 km/hr. What is the man who is on the train starts from the engine and
approximate average speed during the whole moves to the back of the train at 10 m/s with respect
journey? to the train. What is the time taken by the man to
reach the back end of the train (in sec)?
1] 292 km/hr 2] 300 km/hr 1] 10 2] 450/35
3] 350 km/hr 4] 400 km/hr 3] 450/55 4] 45

13. The lengths of the two trains T1 and T2 travelling at

RELATIVE SPEED:
43 m/s and 28 m/s in the same direction are 600 m
6. Two cars A and B are travelling in the same direction and 900 m respectively. When T1 starts overtaking
at speeds of 20 kmph and 25 kmph respectively. A T2, a person starts running from the front end of T 1
person in car C, approaching the two cars from the towards the rear end. He reaches his destination just
opposite side, sees the speed of A as 35 kmph. at the moment T1 crosses T2 completely.
What is the speed of car C with respect to car B (in (a) What would be the distance covered (in km) by
kmph)? T2 from the instant T1 starts overtaking it till the
1] 45 2] 40 3] 35 4] 15 instant it is just overtaken?
1] 2.8 2] 4.3 3] 1.5 4] 2.6
7. A thief is spotted by a policeman from a distance of
100m. When the policeman starts chasing the thief (b) What is the speed of the person (in m/s) with
the thief also starts running. If the speed of the thief respect toT1?
is 8kmph and that of the policeman is 10 kmph, then 1] 6 2] 37 3] 15 4] 49
how far the thief will have run before he is caught?
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20. Three friends A, B and C start running at the same

time at speeds of 20 m/s, 10 m/s and 25 m/s
BOATS AND STREAMS: respectively, from a point P on a 1800 metre circular
track with A alone running in clockwise direction.
14. A boat moves upstream at the rate of 10 km in 20 (i) When do A and C meet for the first time
minutes and downstream at the rate of 10 km in 15 (in seconds)?
minutes. The speed of the boat in still water (in 1] 180 2] 120 3] 60 4] 40
kmph) is? (ii) When do B and C meet for the first time
1] 5 2] 30 3] 35 4] 40 (in seconds)?
1] 180 2]120 3] 52 4] 100
15. Amith can row 15km/hr in still water. If the speed of
the water current is 3 km/hr and it takes 4 hrs for him (iii) When do the three friends meet for the first time
to go to a new place and back. Find the distance (in minutes)?
1] 2 2] 1.5 3] 2.5 4] 3
between his starting point& the new place.
136 141 (iv) When do the three friends meet for the first at the
1] km 2] km
5 5 starting point (in minutes)?
144 156 1] 3 2] 5 3] 6 4] 12
3] km 4] km
5 5 21. A train, a car and a ferry are passing parallel to each
other in a peculiar area where a stream, a railway
CIRCULAR TRACK AND RACES track and a road are side by side. The ferry is
moving downstream towards the East and so is the
16. A fast-moving tortoise and a slow-moving hare start train, whereas the car is moving towards the West.
running on circular track in the same direction at The speed of a person moving at 2 m/s w.r.t train,
speeds, which are in the ratio of 3: 8. Find the towards West (person is moving inside the train), is
number of times the hare meets the tortoise in the seen by the car driver as moving at 23 m/s towards
time tortoise completes 3 rounds? East. The train, moving at 10m/s, is seen by the ferry
1] 3 2] 4 3] 5 4] Indeterminate driver as moving at 2 m/s towards West. What is the
speed of the car as seen by a person floating in the
17. In a 1000 m race, A gives B a head start of 200 m river, if the speed of the ferry in still water is 8 m/s?
and gives C a head start of 300 m. All the three 1] 19 2] 21 3] 25 4] 29
finish the race at the same time. What is the speed
of A (in m/s), if the difference in the speeds of B and 22. Two cars start from the same point at the same time
C is 2 m/s? towards the same destination which is 420 km away.
1] 20 2] 10 The first car and the second car travel at respective
3] 18 4] Indeterminate speeds of 60 kmph and 90 kmph. After traveling for
some time, the speeds of the two cars get
PERK UP QUESTIONS: interchanged. Finally, the second car reaches the
destination one hour earlier than the first. Find the
18. Due to a technical glitch, the speed of a metro train time after which the speeds get interchanged.
reduces by half after travelling a distance of ‘d’ km in 1] 2 2] 4 3] 3 4] 5
the journey from station A to B, which are separated
by a distance of 20 km. Because of this it arrives at 23. A train of length 600 m is leaving a platform at 15
station B 30 minutes late. Had the glitch developed 4 kmph. Before it completely left the platform, another
km further, the train would have arrived at station B train of length 300 m coming in the opposite direction
only 15 minutes late. What is the actual travel time with a speed of 75 kmph starts crossing the first
(in minutes) between the two stations? train. The second train entered the platform
1] 75 2] 90 3] 105 4] 120 completely, and simultaneously crossed the first
train. If the length of the platform is 1125 m, then
19. A and B run in opposite directions from a point P on what is the time taken by the second train to cross
a circle with different but constant speeds. A runs in the platform after it has crossed the first train?
the clockwise direction.They meet for the first time at 1] 48 sec 2] 54 sec 3] 60 sec4]72 sec
a distance of 1000 m in the clockwise direction from
P and for the second time at a distance of 900 m in
the anticlockwise direction from P. What is the
circumference of the circle (in metres), if A is yet to
complete one round?
1] 2900 2] 1900 3] 1450 4] 1350