SSC

SPEED TIME & DISTANCE

By Praveet Dixit

Global

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 09. The speed of 90 km/hour is same as
01. An aeroplane covers a certain distance at a speed of
(a) 9 m/s (b) 20 m/s (c) 25 m/s (d) 28 m/s
240 km/hour in 5 hours. To cover the same distance in
2 10. A train covers a distance of 10 km in 12 minutes. If its
1 hours it must travel at a speed of :
3 speed is decreased by 5 km/hr, the time taken by it to
(a) 300 Km/hr (b) 360 Km/hr covers the same distance will be
(c) 600 Km/hr (d) 720 Km/hr (a) 10 min (b) 13 min 20 sec
(c) 13 min (d) 11 min 20 sec
02. A man crosses a road 250 metre wide in 75 seconds. 1
His speed in Km/hr is 11. The speed 3 m/sec when expressed in km/hour
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(a) 10 (b) 12 becomes
(c) 12.5 (d) 15 (a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 12

03. A train passes a 50m long platform in 14 seconds and a 9

12. A man covers distance by bus and the remaining
man standing on the platform in 10 seconds. The speed 20
of the train is 10 km on foot. His total journey (in kms) is
(a) 24 Km/hr (b) 36 Km/hr (a) 15 : 6 (b) 24 (c) 18 : 18 (d) 12 : 8
(c) 40 Km/hr (d) 45 Km/hr 13. A distance is covered by a cyclist at a certain speed. If
04. A 120 metre long train is running at a speed of 90 km a joger covers half the distance in double the time, the
per hour. It will crosses a railway platform 230 m long ration of the speed of the jogger to that of the cyclist is
in (a) 1 : 4 (b) 4 : 1 (c) 1 : 2 (d) 2 : 1
4 14. A train covers a certain distance in 210 minutes at a
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(a) 4 seconds (b) 9 seconds speed of 60 km/h. The time taken by the train, to cover
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the same distance at a speed of 80 kmph is:
(c) 7 seconds (d) 14 seconds
05. A truck covers a distance of 550 m in 1 min whereas a 5 5 5
(a) 3 hr (b) 2 hr (c) 4 hr (d) 3 hr
bus covers a distance of 33 kms in 45 minutes. The 8 8 8
ratio of their speed is 1
(a) 4:3 (b) 3:5 15. A truck travels 1 2 hours. After that a truck travels at
(c) 3:4 (d) 50:3
06. A train passes a telegraph post and a bridge 264 m in 8 1
90 km/hr for the first 1 hr. After that it travels at 70
seconds and 20 seconds respectively. What is the 2
speed of the train? km/hr. Find the time taken by the truck to travel 310
(a) 69.5 Km/hr. (b) 70 Km/hr. kms.
(c) 79 Km/hr. (d) 79.2 Km/hr. (a) 2.5 hrs (b) 3 hrs (c) 3.5 hrs (d) 4 hrs
07. A moving train crosses a man standing on a platform 16. A train passes two bridges of length 500m and 250m in
and the platform 300 metres long in 10 seconds and 25 100 seconds and 60 seconds respectively. The length
seconds respectively. What will be the time taken by of the train is:
the train to cross a platform 200 m Long? (a) 125 m (b) 250 m (c) 120m (d) 152 m
2 17. The distance between 2 places R and S is 42 Km. Anita
(a) 16 sec (b) 18 sec starts from R with a uniform speed of 4 km/h towards S
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(c) 20 sec (d) 22 sec and at same time Romita starts from S towards R also
08. A train crosses a pole in 15 seconds & a platform 100 with some uniform speed. They meet each other after 6
metre long in 25 seconds. Its length is hours. The speed of Romita is
(a) 50 (b) 100 (c) 150 (d) 200

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 26. Two trains 150 m and 120 m long respectively moving
(a) 18 Km/hr (b) 20 Km/hr from opposite directions cross each other in 10 sec. If
(c) 3 Km/hr (d) 8 Km/hr the speed of the second train is 43.2 km/hr then the
18. Two men are standing on opposite ends of a bridge speed of the first train is
1200 m long. If they walk towards each other at the rate (a) 54 km/hr (b) 50 km/hr
of 5 m/min respectively, in how much time will they (c) 52 km/hr (d) 51 km/hr
meet each other? 27. A thief steals a car at 1:30 p.m and drive it off at 40 km/
hr. The thief is discovered at 2 p.m. and the owner sets
(a) 60 min (b) 120 min (c) 85 min (d) 90 min off in another car at 50 km/hr. He will catch the thief at
19. Two trains, one 160m and the other 140m long are (a) 5 p.m. (b) 4 p.m.
running in opposite direction on parallel tracks, the (c) 4.30 p.m. (d) 6 p.m.
first at 77 km, an hour and the other. How long will they 28. A train running at the speed of 84 km/hr passes a man
take to cross each other? walking in opposite direction at the speed of 6 km/hr in
4 seconds. What is the length of train?
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(a) 7 sec (b) 7 sec (c) 6 sec (d) 10 sec (a) 150 (b) 120 (c) 100 (d) 90
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29. A person travels 600 km by train at 80 km/hr 800 km by
20. Two trains of equal length take 10 seconds and 15
ship at 400 km/hr and 100 km by car at 50 km/hr. What
seconds respectively to cross a telegraph post. If the
is the average speed for the entire distance?
length of each train be 120 metres, in what time will
30. A train covers a distance of 3584 km in 2 days 8 hours.
they cross each other travelling in opposite directions?
If it covers 1440 km on the first day and 1608 km on the
(a) 16 (b) 15 (c) 12 (d) 10
second day, by how much does the average speed of
21. A train travelling at 48 km/hr crosses another train,
the train for the remaining part of the journey differ
having half its length and travelling in opposite
from that for the entire journey?
direction at 42 km/hr in 12 seconds. It also passes a
(a) 3 km/h (b) 4 km/h (c) 10 km/h (d) 2 km/h
railway platform in 45 seconds. The length of the
31. A person went from A and B at an average speed of x
railway platform is
km/hr and returned from B to A at an average speed of
(a) 200 m (b) 300 m (c) 350m (d) 400 m
y km/hr. What was his average speed during the total
22. A jeep is chasing a car which is 5 km ahead. Their
journey
respectively speeds are 90 km/hr and 75 km/hr. After
how many minutes will the jeep catch the car? x y 2xy 2 1 1
(a) (b) x  y (c) x  y (d) 
(a) 18 min (b) 20 min (c) 24 min (d) 25 min 2 xy x y
23. A train 300m long passed a man walking along the line 32. A bus covers three successive 3 km stretches at speed
in the same direction at the rate of 3 km/hr in 33 seconds. of 10 km/hr, 20 km/hr and 60 km/hr respectively. Its
The speed of the train is average speed over this distance is
(a) 30 km/h (b) 32 km/h (a) 30 km/hr (b) 25 km/hr
8 8 (c) 18 km/hr (d) 10 km/hr
(c) 32 km/h (d) 35 km/h
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24. Points ‘A’ and ‘B’ are 70 km apart on a highway and 33. By walking at of his usual speed a man reaches his
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two cars start at the same time. If they travel in the
office 20 minutes later than his usual time. The usual
same directions, they travel in the same directions,
time taken by him to reach his office is
they meet in 7 hours, but if they travel towards each
(a) 75 min (b) 60 min (c) 40 min (d) 30 min
other they meet in 1 hour. Find the speed of 2 cars
34. In covering a distance of 30 km. Abhay takes 2 hours
(a) 20,30 (b) 40,30 (c) 30,50 (d) 20,40
more than Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then
25. P, and Q are 27 km away. Two trains with speed of 24
he would take 1 hour less than Sameer, Abhay’s speed
km/hr and 18 km/hr respectively start simultaneously
is
from P and Q and travel in the same direction. They
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 6.25 (d) 7.5
meet at a point R beyond Q. Distance QR is
35. A man travelled a certain distance by train at the rate
(a) 126 km (b) 81 km (c) 48 km (d) 36 km

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 of 25 kmph and walked back at the rate of 4 kmph. If the time, B start from the same point 1 minutes later and A
whole journey took 5 hours 48 minutes, the distance starts from the same point 2 minutes later then C. Then
was A meets B and C after
(a) 25 km (b) 30 km (c) 20 km (d) 15 km 5
1 (a) min, 2 min (b) 1 min, 2 min
36. A car can cover a certain distance in 4 hours by 5 3
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km/hr. If the speed is increased by 5 km/hour. It would 4
(c) 2 min, 3 min (d) , 3 min
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take hr less to cover the same distance. Find the 44. The diameter of a cycle wheel is 140 cm. The cyclist
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takes 30 hours to reach his destination at the speed of
slower speed of the car
22 kmph. How many revolutions will the cycle wheel
(a) 50 km/hr (b) 40 km/hr
(c) 45 km/hr (d) 60 km/hr 22
make during his journey (assume   )
37. A car travels from P to Q at a constant speed. If its 7
speed were increased by 10 km/h, it would have taken 1
(a) 1 lakh (b) 2 lakh (c) 3 lakh (d)
one hour liner to cover the distance. It would have 1 lakh
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taken further 45 minutes lesser if the speed was further 45. A man goes to a place on bicycle at a speed of 16 km/
increased by 10 km/h. The distance between the two hr and comes back at lower speed. If the average speed
cities is is 6.4 km/hr in total, then the return speed is
(a) 540 km (b) 420 km (c) 600 km (d) 620 km (a) 10 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 4
38. A gun is fired from a fort. A man hears the sound 10 46. The time taken by a train 160 m long, running at 72 km/
seconds later. If the sound travels at the rate the of 330 hr, to cross an electric pole is
m/sec. Find the distance between the fort and the man. (a) 8 sec (b) 9 sec (c) 6 sec (d) 4 sec
(a) 330 km (b) 33 km (c) 3.3 km (d) 0.33 km 47. The moving train passes a platform 50 m long in 14
39. Two trains start from the station A and B and travels seconds and a lamp post in 10 seconds. The speed of
towards each other at speed of 50 km/hr and 60 km/hr the train is
respectively. At the time of their meeting the second (a) 24 (b) 36 (c) 40 (d) 45
train has travelled 120 km more than the first. The 48. A car moving in the morning fog passes a man walking
distance between A and B is at 4 km/hr in the same direction. The man can see the
(a) 990 km (b) 1200 km (c) 1320 km (d) 1440 km car 3 min and visibility is upto a distance of 130 m. The
40. Ravi travels 300 km partly by car. He takes 4 hours to speed of the car is
reach. If he travels 60 km by train and rest by car. He (a) 10 km/hr (b) 6.6 km/hr
will take 10 min more if he were to travel 100 km by train (c) 7 km/hr (d) 5 km/hr
and rest by car. The speed of the train is 49. Rubi goes to a mixture at the speed of 3 km/hr to see a
(a) 50 km/hr (b) 60 km/hr movie and reaches 5 min late. If she travels at the speed
(c) 100 km/hr (d) 120 km/hr of 4 km/hr she reaches 5 minutes early. Then the distance
41. In a one-kilometre race A, B and C are the three of the multiplex from her starting point is
participants. A can give B a start of 50 m and C a start (a) 2 km (b) 5 km (c) 2 m (d) 5 m
of 69 m. The start, which B can allow C is 50. A man travels some distance at the speed of 12 km/hr
(a) 17 m (b) 20 m (c) 19 m (d) 18 m and returns at a speed of 9 km/hr. If the total time taken
42. A can give 40 m start to B and 70 m to C in a race of one by him is 2 hr 20 min, the distance is
km. How many metre start can B give to C in a race of (a) 35 km (b) 21 km (c) 9 km (d) 12 km
one kilometer? 51. There runners A, B and C run a race, with runner A
700 1 finishing 12m ahead of runner C, in another race of
(a) 30 m (b) m (c) 31 m (d) 32 m same type runner B finished 8 meters ahead of runner
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C. Each runner travels the entire distance at a constant
43. A, B, C walk 1 km in 5 minute 8 minute and 10 minute
speed. The length of the race is
respectively C start walking from a point, at a certain

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 (a) 36 metres (b) 48 metres (a) 1000 (b) 900
(c) 60 metres (d) 72 metres (c) 750 (d) 500
52. A man can cover a certain distance in 3 hours 36 minutes
if he walks at the rate of 5 km/hr. If he covers the same
distance on cycle at the rate of 24 km/hr, then the time
taken by him in minutes is
(a) 40 (b) 45 (c) 50 (d) 55
53. To cover a certain distance with a speed of 60 km/hr, a
train takes 15 hours. If covers the same direction in 12
hours, what will be its speed?
(a) 65 km/h (b) 70 km/h
(c) 75 km/h (d) 80 km/h
54. A man travels 450 km to his home partly by train and
partly by car. He takes 8 hours 40 min if he travels 240
km by train and rest by car. He takes 20 mins more if he
travels 180 km by train and rest by car. The speed of
the car in km/hr is
(a) 45 (b) 50
(c) 60 (d) 48

55. A man travels 50 km at speed 25 km/h and next 40 km at

20 km/h and there after travel 90 km at 15 km/h. His
average speed is
(a) 18 (b) 25
(c) 20 (d) 15
56. A train, 200 m long is running at a speed of 54 km/hr.
The time in seconds that will be taken by train to cross
at 175 m long bridge is
(a) 12.5 (b) 20
(c) 25 (d) 10
57. A and B run a 5 km race on a second course of 400 m. If
their speed are in the ratio 5 : 4, the no. of times, the
winner passes the other is
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 5
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58. A train running at 11
of its own speed reached a plane
in 22 hours. How much time could saved if the train
would run at its own speed?
(a) 14 hours (b) 7 hours
(c) 8 hours (d) 16 hours
59. A train is 250 m long if the train takes 50 seconds to
cross a tree by the railway line, then the speed of the
train in km/hr is
(a) 9 (b) 18
(c) 5 (d) 10
60. If the train with a speed of 60 km/hr, crosses a pole in
30 second. The length of the train (in metres) is: