TIME SPEED AND DISTANCE

1. The J & K express from Delhi to Srinagar was delayed by 6. Two motorists met at 10 am at the Dadar railway station.
snowfall for 16 minutes and made up for the delay on a After their meeting, one of them proceeded in the East
section of 80 km travelling with a speed 10 km per hour direction while the other proceeded in the North
higher than its normal speed. Find the original speed of direction. Exactly at noon, they were 60 km apart. Find
the J & K express (according to the schedule) the speed of the slower motorist if the difference of their
(a) 60 km/h (b) 66.66 km/h speeds is 6 km/h.

(c) 50 km/h (d) 40 km/h (a) 25 km/h (b) 18 km/h

(e) None of these (c) 9 km/h (d) 19 km/h

(e) 20 km/h
2. Ayrton Senna had to cover a distance of 60 km. However,
he started 6 minutes later than his scheduled time and 7. Two cyclists start simultaneously towards each other
raced at a speed 1 km/h higher than his originally from Aurangabad and Ellora, which are 28 km apart. An
planned speed and reached the finish at the time be would hour later they meet and keep pedalling with the same
reach it if he began to race strictly at the appointed time speed without with the same speed without stopping. The
and raced with the assumed speed. Find the speed at second cyclist arrives at Ellora 35 minutes later the first
which he travelled during the journey described. arrives at Aurangabad. Find the speed of the cyclist who
(a) 25 km/h (b) 15 km/h started from Ellora.

(c) 10 km/h (d) 6 km/h (a) 12 km/h (b) 16 km/h

(e) 24 km/h (c) 15 km/h (d) 10 km/h

(e) None of these
3. Amitabh covered a distance of 96 km two hours faster
than he had planned to. This he achieved by travelling 1 8. Two ants start simultaneously from two ant holes
km more every hour than he intended to cover every 1 towards each other. The first ant covers 8% of the
hour 15 minutes. What was the speed at which Amitabh distance between the two ant holes in 3 hours, the second
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travelled during the journey? and covered of the distance in 2 hours 30 minutes.
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(a) 16 km/h (b) 26 km/h Find the speed (feet/h) of the second ant if the first ant
(c) 36 km/h (d) 30 km/h travelled 800 feet to the meeting point.
(e) None of these (a) 15 feet/h (b) 25 feet/h
(c) 45 feet/h (d) 35 feet/h
4. An urgent message had to be delivered from the house of
(e) 36 feet/h
the Peshwas in Pune to Shivaji who was camping in
Bangalore. A horse rider travels on horse back from Pune 9. A bus left point S for point Y. Two hours later a car left
to Bangalore at a constant speed. If the horse increased its point X for Y and X for Y and arrived at Y at Y at the same
speed by 6 km/h, it would take the rider 4 hours less to times as the bus. If the car and the bus left simultaneously
cover that distance. And travelling with a speed 6 km/h from the opposite ends X and Y towards each other, they
lower than the initial speed, it would take him 10 hours would meet 1.33 hours after the start. How much time did
more than the time he would have the initial speed. Find it take the bus to travel from X to Y?
the distance between Pune and Banagalore.
(a) 2 h (b) 4 h
(a) 120 km (b) 600 km
(c) 6 h (d) 8 h
(c) 720 km (d) 750 km
(e) 10 h
(e) 760 km
10. A racetrack is in the from of a right triangle. The longer of
5. A pedestrian and a cyclist start simultaneously towards the legs of the track is 2 km more than the shorter of the
each other from Aurangabad and Paithan which are 40 legs (both these legs being on a highway). The start and
km apart and meet 2 hours after the start. Then they end points are also connected to each other through a side
resumed their trips and the cyclist arrives at Aurangabad road. The escort vehicle for the race took the side road
7 hours 30 minutes earlier than the pedestrian arrives at and rode with a speed of 30 km/h and then covered the
Paithan. Which of these could be the speed of the two intervals along the highway during the same time
pedestrian? with a speed of 42 km/h. Find the length of the racetrack.
(a) 4 km/h (b) 5 km/h (a) 14 km (b) 10 km
(c) 3 km/h (d) 6 km/h (c) 24 km (d) 36 km
(e) Cannot be determined (e) 30 km

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11. Two planes move long a circle of circumference 1.2 km remaining half of the distance to arrive at Daulatabad as
with constant speeds. When they more in different per the schedule?
directions, they meet every 15 seconds and when they (a) 10 kmph (b) 20 kmph
move in the same direction, one plane overtakes the other (c) 15 kmph (d) 16 kmph
every 60 seconds. Find the speed of the slower plane. (e) Cannot be determined
(a) 0.04 km/s (b) 0.03 km/s
17. Nishit travels from Patna to Kolkata, a distance of 200 km
(c) 0.05 km/s (d) 0.02 km/s at the speed of 40 km/h. At the same time, Ravi starts
(e) None of these from Kolkata at a speed of 20 kmph along a road, which is
perpendicular to the road on which Nishit is travelling.
12. Karim, a tourist leaves Ellora on a bicycle. Having When will Nishit and Ravi be closest to each other?
travelled for 1.5 h at 16 km/h, he makes a stop for 1.5 h (a) In 1.5 hours (b) In 4 hours
and then pedals on which the same speed. Four hours (c) In 3.33 hours (d) In 5 hours
after Karim started, his friend and local guide Rahim
(e) In 6 hours
leaves Ellora on a motorcycle and rides with a speed of 28
km/h in the same direction as Karim had gone, What 18. Two towns are at a distance of 240 km from each other. A
distance will they cover before Rahim overtaken Karim. motorist takes 8 hours to cover the distance if he travels
at a speed of V0 km/h from town A to an intermediate
(a) 88 km (b) 90.33 km
town C, and then continues on his way with an
(c) 93.33 km (d) 96.66 km acceleration of x km/hr2. He needs the same time to cover
(e) None of these the whole distance if he travels from A to C at V 0 km/h
and From C to B at V1 km/h or from A to C at V1 km/h and
13. A tourist covered a journey partly by foot and partly by from C to B at V0 km/h. Find V0 if the acceleration ‘x’ is
tonga. He walked for 90 km and rode the tonga for 10 km. double V0 in magnitude and V0  V1.
He spent 4 h less on the tonga than on walking. If the (a) 15 km/h (b) 10 km/h
tourist had reversed the times he travelled by foot and on (c) 20 km/h (d) 8 km/h
tonga, the distances travelled on each part of the journey (e) None of these
would be equal. How long did he ride the tong?
19. Jaideep travels from Alaska, which is on a highway, to
(a) He rode for 6 hours (b) He rode for 4 hours
Burgen, which is 16 km from the highway. The distance
(c) He rode for 2 hours (d) He rode for 5 hours between Alaska and Burgen along a straight line is 34 km.
(e) None of these At what point should Jaideep turn from the highway to
reach Burgen in the shortest possible time, if his speed
14. A train leaves Muzaffarpur for Hazipur at 2:15 pm and along the ghihway is 10 km/h and 6 km/h otherwise.
travels at the rate of 50 kmph. Another train leaves (a) 30 km away form A (b) 20 km away form A
Hazipur for Muzaffarpur at 1:35 pm and travels at the rate
(c) 18 km away form A (d) 15 km away form A
of 60 kmph. If the distance between Hazipur and
(e) None of these
Muzaffarpur is 590 km at what distance from Muzaffarpur
will the two trains meet? 20. An object begins moving at time moment t = 0 and 4s after
the beginning of the motion, attains the scceleration of 3
(a) 200 km (b) 300 km
m/s2. Find the speed of the object 6 s after the beginning
(c) 250 km (d) 225 km of motion if it is known that the speed of the body varies
accordingly to the law v(f) = (t2 + 2b.t + 4) m/s and the
15. A dog after travelling 50 km meets a swami who counsels
object moves along a straight line,
him to go slower. He then proceeds at ¾ of his former
(a) 22 m/s (b) 10 m/s
speed and arrives at his destination 35 minutes late. Had
the meeting occurred 24 km further the dog is (c) 30 m/s (d) 15 m/s
(e) Data insufficient
(a) 48 km/h (b) 36 km/h
(c) 54 km/h (d) 58 km/h 21. For problem 20, find the distance covered by the object in
the first 7 seconds if we assume that the speed of the
16. A train has to travel the distance between Aurangabad object in a particular second is the speed it attains at the
and Daulatabad, equal to 20 km, at a constant speed. It start of the second.
travelled half the way with the specified speed and (a) 15 metres (b) 14 metres
stopped for three minutes, to arrive at Daulatabad on
(c) 10 metres (d) 5 metres
time, it had to increase its speed by 10 km/h for the rest
of the way. Next time the train stopped half-way for five (e) 8 metres
minutes. By what speed must it increase its speed for the

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22. Three ghats X, Y and Z on the Yamuna in Delhi are located

on the river bank. The speed of the river flow is 8 km/h in
the direction of its flow, Ghat Y being located midway
between X and Z. A raft and a launch leave Y at the same
time, the raft travelling down the reiver to Z and the
launch travelling to X. The speed of the launch in still
water is 5 km/h. Having reached X, the launch reverses its
direction and starts to Z. Find the range of values of V for
which the launch arrives at Z later than the raft.
(a) 8 < V < 24 km/h (b) 8 < V < 16 km/h
(c) 8 < V < 20 km/h (d) 12 < V < 24 km/h
(e) None of these

23. A pedestrian left point A for a walk, going with the speed
of 5 km/h. when the pedestrian was at a distance of 6 km
from A, a cyclist followed him, starting from A and cycling
at a speed 9 km/h higher than that of the pedestrian.
When the cyclist overtook the pedestrian, they turned
back and returned to A together, at the speed of 4 km/h.
At what v will the time speat by the pedestrian on his total
journey from A to A be the least?
(a) 5 km/h (b) 6 km/h
(c) 6.1 km/h (d) 5.5 km/h
(e) Cannot be determined

24. A cyclist eft point A for point B and travelled at the

constant speed of 25 km/h. When he covered the distance
of 8.33 km, he was overtaken by a car that left point A
twelve minutes after the cyclist and travelled at a constant
speed too. When the cyclist travelled another 30 km, he
encountered the car returning from B. Assume that the
car did not stop at point B. Find the distance between A
and B.
(a) 39.5833 km (b) 41.0833 km
(c) 60.833 km (d) 43.33 km
(e) None of these

25. A robot began moving from point A in a straight line at 6

pm with an initial speed of 3 m/s. One second later, the
speed of the robot became equal to 4 m/s. Find the
acceleration of the robot at the end of the 2nd second if its
speed changes by the law s® = (ar2 + 2t = (b))
(a) 1 m/s2 (b) –2 m/s2
(c) 0 m/s2 (d) 2 m/s2
(e) None of these

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