Speed, Time, Distance :

1. A

train traveling at 72 kmph crosses a platform in 30 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 18 seconds. What is the length of the platform in meters? 1. 2. 3. 4. 240 meters 360 meters 420 meters 600 meters

Correct Answer is 240 metres . Choice (1) is right. Explanatory Answer When the train crosses a man standing on a platform, the distance covered by the train is equal to the length of the train. However, when the same train crosses a platform, the distance covered by the train is equal to the length of the train plus the length of the platform. The extra time that the train takes when crossing the platform is on account of the extra distance that it has to cover = length of the platform. Therefore, length of the platform = speed of train * extra time taken to cross the platform Length of platform = 72 kmph * 12 seconds Converting 72 kmph into m/sec, we get 72 kmph = = 20 m/sec Therefore, length of the platform = 20 * 12 = 240 meters. 2. A train traveling at 100 kmph overtakes a motorbike traveling at 64 kmph in 40 seconds. What is the length of the train in meters? 1. 2. 3. 4. 1777 meters 1822 meters 400 meters 1400 meters

Correct Answer is 400. Choice (3) is right. Explanatory Answer When a train overtakes another object such as a motorbike, whose length is negligible compared to the length of the train, then the distance traveled by the train while overtaking the motorbike is the same as the length of the train. The length of the train = distance traveled by the train while overtaking the motorbike = relative speed between the train and the motorbike * time taken In this case, as both the objects i.e., the train and the motorbike are moving in the same direction, the relative speed between them = difference between their respective speeds = 100 64 = 36 kmph. Distance traveled by the train while overtaking the motorbike = 36 kmph * 40 seconds.

The final answer is given in meters and the speed is given in kmph and the time in seconds. So let us convert the given speed from kmph to m/sec. 1 kmph = 5/18 m/sec Therefore, 36 kmph = 36 * 5 /18 = 10 m/sec. Relative speed = 10 m/sec. Time taken = 40 seconds. Therefore, distance traveled = 10 * 40 = 400 meters. 3. Jim travels the first 3 hours of his journey at 60 mph speed and the remaining 5 hours at 24 mph speed. What is the average speed of Jim's travel in mph? 1. 2. 3. 4. 42 mph 36 mph 37.5 mph 42.5 mph

Correct Answer is 37.5 mph . Choice (3) is right. Explanatory Answer

Average speed =

Total distance traveled by Jim = Distance covered in the first 3 hours + Distance covered in the next 5 hours. Distance covered in the first 3 hours = 3 * 60 = 180 miles Distance covered in the next 5 hours = 5 * 24 = 120 miles Therefore, total distance traveled = 180 + 120 = 300 miles. Total time taken = 3 + 5 = 8 hours. Average speed = = 37.5 mph.

4. A man can row 50 km upstream and 72 km downstream in 9 hours. He can also row 70 km upstream and 90 km downstream in 12 hours. Find the rate of current. 1. 2. 3. 4. 3 kmph 8 kmph 4 kmph None of these

Correct Answer is 4 kmph . Choice (3) is right. Explanatory Answer Let x and y be the upstream and downstream speed respectively. Hence, 50/x + 72/y = 9 and 70/x + 90/y = 12 Solving for x and y we get x = 10 km/hr and y = 18 km/hr

We know that Speed of the stream = 1/2 * (downstream speed - upstream speed) = 1/2 (18 - 10) = 4 km/hr. 5. Ram covers a part of the journey at 20 kmph and the balance at 70 kmph taking total of 8 hours to cover the distance of 400 km. How many hours has been driving at 20 kmph? 1. 2. 3. 4. 2 hours 3 hours 20 minutes 4 hours 40 minutes 3 hours 12 minutes

Correct Answer is 3 hours 12 minutes . Choice (4) is right. Explanatory Answer Let x be the number of hours he travels at 20 kmph. Distance covered in this x hours = 20x km He would have therefore, traveled the balance (8 - x) hours at 70 kmph. Distance covered in this (8 - x) hours = (8 - x) * 70 = (560 - 70x) km The total distance traveled = 20x + 560 - 70x = 400 =>160 = 50 x =>x = (160/50) hours = 3.2 hours = 3 hours and 12 minutes 6. Yana and Gupta leave points x and y towards y and x respectively simultaneously and travel in the same route. After meeting each other on the way, Yana takes 4 hours to reach her destination, while Gupta takes 9 hours to reach his destination. If the speed of Yana is 48 km/hr, what is the speed of Gupta? 1. 2. 3. 4. 72 kmph 32 mph 20 mph None of these

Correct Answer 20 mph. Choice (3) is right. Explanatory Answer Yana and Gupta travel for the same amount of time till the time they meet between x and y. So, the distance covered by them will be the same as the ratio of their speeds. Let the time that they have taken to meet each other be x hours from the time they have started. Therefore, the cover the entire distance, Yana would take x + 4 hours and Gupta will take x + 9 hours. Ratio of time taken Yana : Gupta :: x + 4 :: x + 9 => Ratio of speeds of Yana : Gupta :: x + 9 :: x + 4 or 1 :

By the time Yana and Gupta meet, Yana would have traveled 48X kms. After meeting, this is the distance that Gupta takes 9 hours to cover. Hence, Gupta's speed = km/hr.

But we know that the ratio of Yana's and Gupta's speeds are 1 :

Therefore, 48 :

:: 1 :

Or = => x2 + 9x = 9x + 36 => x2 = 36 or x = 6 hours.

Hence, speed of Gupta =

= 32 kmph = 20mph

7. By walking at 3/4th of his usual speed, a man reaches office 20 minutes later than usual. What is his usual time? 1. 2. 3. 4. 30 min 60 min 70 min 50 min

Correct Answer is 60 min. Choice (2) is right. Explanatory Answer 3/4 of a man's usual speed means, he takes 4/3 of his usual time to cover the same distance, i.e. he takes 4/3 - 1 = 1/3 time extra. 1/3 time is 20 minutes (given) Usual time = 20 * 3 = 60 minutes. 8. I travel the first part of my journey at 40 kmph and the second part at 60 kmph and cover the total distance of 240 km to my destination in 5 hours. How long did the first part of my journey last? 1. 2. 3. 4. 4 hours 2 hours 3 hours 2 hours 24 minutes

Correct Answer is 3 hours. Choice (3) is right. Explanatory Answer The total time of journey = 5 hours. Let 'x' hours be the time that I traveled at 40 kmph Therefore, 5 - x hours would be time that I traveled at 60 kmph. Hence, I would have covered x*40 + (5 - x)60 kms in the 5 hours = 240 kms. Solving, for x in the equation 40x + (5 - x)*60 = 240, we get 40x + 300 - 60x = 240 => 20x = 60 or x = 3 hours. 9. A passenger train covers the distance between stations X and Y, 50 minutes faster than a goods train. Find this distance if the average speed of the passenger train is 60 kmph and that of goods train is 20 kmph. 1. 2. 3. 4. 20 kms 25 kms 45 kms 40 kms

Correct Answer is 25 kms. Choice (2) is right. Explanatory Answer Let 'd' be the distance between the stations X and Y. Time taken by the passenger train to cover the distance 'd' = d/60 hour Time taken by the goods train to cover the distance 'd' = d/20 hour Time difference between these two trains is given by 50 minutes or 50/60 hour i.e., (d/20) - (d/60) = 50/60

d = 25kms. 10. The speed of a motor boat itself is 20 km/h and the rate of flow of the river is 4 km/h. Moving with the stream the boat went 120 km. What distance will the boat cover during the same time going against the stream? 1. 2. 3. 4. 80 180 60 100

Correct Answer is 80. Choice (1) is right.

Explanatory Answer Let the distance to be covered by the boat when it is travelling against the stream be x. The boat goes down the river at a speed of 20 + 4 = 24 km/h and up the river at a speed of 20 - 4 = 16 km/h. Since the time taken is same 120/24 = x/16 Therefore, x = 80 km. 11. A man and a woman 81 miles apart from each other, start travelling towards each other at the same time. If the man covers 5 miles per hour to the women's 4 miles per hour, how far will the woman have travelled when they meet? 1. 2. 3. 4. 27 36 45 None of these

Correct Answer is 36. Choice (2) is right. Explanatory Answer Time taken to meet = (Distance between them) / (Relative speed) = 81/(4 + 5) = 9 hours Therefore, woman travells = 9 x 4 = 36 miles. 12. Two boys begin together to write out a booklet containing 535 lines. The first boy starts with the first line, writing at the rate of 100 lines an hour; and the second starts with the last line then writes line 534 and so on, backward proceeding at the rate of 50 lines an hour. At what line will they meet? 1. 2. 3. 4. 356 277 357 267

Correct Answer is 357 . Choice (3) is right. Explanatory Answer Writing ratio = 100 : 50 = 2 : 1 As equal quantities are taken, in a given time, first boy will be writing the line number

or the 357th line Hence, both of them shall meet on 357th line