TIME, DISTANCE

& SPEED
(Set - 1 to 6)
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 1)

1) If a man moves at 25% more than his actual speed; he reaches his destination 30
minutes earlier. Find the actual time taken by him to reach the destination
a) 3.5 hrs b) 2.5 hrs c) 4.5 hrs d) 5 hrs e) None of these

2) A boy goes to his school at 6 km/hr and returns home at 4 km/hr by following
the same route. If he takes a total of 35 minutes in to and fro journey; find the dis-
tance between his school and home?
a) 2 kms b) 1.4 kms c) 3 kms d) 3.5 kms e) None of these

3) A man cycles with a speed of 10 km/h and reaches his destination at 1 pm. How-
ever, when he cycles with a speed of 15 km/h, he reaches his office at 11 am. At
what speed should he cycle so that he reaches his office at 12 noon?
a) 16 kmph b) 14 kmph c) 12 kmph d) 13 kmph e) None of these

4) If a person walks at 14 km/hr. instead of 10 km/hr., he would have walked 20 km

more, in the same amount of time. What is the actual distance travelled by him?
a) 40 km b) 70 km c) 50 km d) 60 km e) None of these

5) A man completes a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the
rate of 15 km/hr. and second half at the rate of 20 km/hr. Find the total journey in
km?
a) 500/7 kms b) 500/3 kms c) 400/7 kms d) 60/7 kms e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 2)

1) A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time
and reach point B 75km away from A at the same time. On the way however the
train lost about 12.5 min while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is?
a) 110 kmph b) 105 kmph c) 120 kmph d) 75 kmph e) None of these

2) A woman takes 6 h 35 min in walking to her home and riding back to her hostel
in car. She would have taken 2 h less by riding car in both ways. What would be the
time she would take to walk both ways?
a) 102/13 hrs b) 105/12 hrs c) 103/13 hrs d) 103/12 hrs e) None of these

3) If a man walks to his office at 3/4 of his usual rate, he reaches office 1/3 of hour
later than usual. what is his usual time to reach office?
a) 1 hr b) 4 hrs c) 2 hrs d) 3 hrs e) None of these

4) In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than Sameer. If Abhay
doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less than Sameer. Find the speed of
Abhay.
a) 4 km/h b) 7 km/h c) 5 km/h d) 6 km/h e) None of these

5) A person started his journey in the morning. At 11 am, he covered 3/8 of his
journey and on the same day at 4:30 pm he covered 5/6 of his journey. At what
time did he start the journey ?
a) 6 : 30 am b) 5 : 00 am c) 7 : 00 am d) 6 : 10 am e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 2)

6. Difference between the time taken in covering a certain journey decreases by 45 minutes
when the speed is increased from 10 km/h to 20 km/h. What is the difference between the
time taken when the same distance is covered at a speed of 40 km/h and 25 km/h?
1) 12.5 min 2) 13.5 min 3) 14.5 min 4) 15 min 5) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 3)

1) It takes 8 hours to travels 600 km partly by a train and partly by car. He takes 8
hours if he travels 120 km by train and the rest by car. He takes 20 min more if he
travels 200 km by train and the rest by car. Find the speed of the train in km/h.
a) 60 kmph b) 45 kmph c) 50 kmph d) 55 kmph e) None of these

2) Rani traveled the first half of the distance from her house to school at a speed of
10 km/h and for exactly half of the remaining time she travelled at 15 km/h and the
rest of the time at 20 km/h. Find her average speed?
a) 11(11/8) kmph b) 14 kmph c) 12(8/11)kmph d) 3.5 kmph e) None of these

3) A train travels a distance of 192 km at an average speed of 80 km/h from station

A to another station B. It then travels back to A taking 5 hours 36 min. Find the av-
erage speed of the train on the return journey to A.
a) 20 kmph b) 70 kmph c) 60 kmph d) 80 kmph e) None of these

4) A man travel a certain distance from point A to B at 20 km/hr and walks back at 9
km/hr. If he covers the whole journey in 5 hours and 48 mins, then what is the dis-
tance he travelled while walking back from point B to A?
a) 44 km b) 72 km c) 36 km d) 32 km e) None of these

5) Aman travels a certain distance at 50 km/h, then he reaches early by 5 mins but
if he travels at 35 km/h, then he reaches his destination 10 mins late. Find the dis-
tance he travelled.
a) 175/6 kms b) 125/6 kms c) 200/7 kms
d) 160/7 kms e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 4)

1) If a man travels at a speed of 30 km/h he reaches his office 5 mins earlier, but if
he travels at a speed 33(1/3)% less than his previous speed, he is late by 15 mins.
Find the distance and the actual time to reach his office.
a) 30 km, 40 min b) 20 km, 45 min c) 20 km, 40 min d) 55 km, 20 min e) None of
these
2) A man covers a certain distance by auto and travels at 3 km per hr faster he
would have taken 40 min less. But if he decreased his speed by 2 km/h, then he is
40 mins late. Find the distance.
a) 50 km b) 40 km c) 80 km d) 55 km e) None of these

3) In a flight of 600 Km an aircraft slow down due to bad weather, its average speed
for the trip reduced by 200 km/h & the time of flight increased by 30 min. Find the
original speed?
a) 200 kmph b) 400 kmph c) 600 kmph d) 800 kmph e) None of these

4) Two trains, one from Howrah to Patna and the other from Patna to Howrah, start
simultaneously. After they meet, the trains reach their destinations after 9 hours
and 16 hours respectively. Find the ratio of their speeds.
a) 4 : 5 b) 2 : 3 c) 5 : 9 d) 3 : 4 e) None of these

5) A and B stay next to each other and works in the same office. A and B start walk-
ing towards their office at the speed of 2 km/h and 3 km/h respectively. The faster
of the two reaches the office first, turns around and starts walking back. If A and B
meet 200 m away from the home, what is the distance between their residences
and the office?
a) 250m b) 240 m c) 220m d) 260 m e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 4)

6) Rajdhani express leaves Lucknow to Agra at 10 : 10 am and reaches Agra at 3 : 30

pm. Shatabti leaves Agra at 9 : 48 am and reaches Lucknow at 2 : 36 pm. If routes of
both the trains are the same, then at what time both the trains meet each other?
(a) 11 : 50 pm (b) 1 : 12 am (c) 1 : 21 am (d) 1 : 32 pm (e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 5)

1) A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr. crosses a pole in 9 seconds. What is the
length of the train?
a) 150 m b) 200 m c) 300 m d) 15 km e) None of these

2) Speed of a train is 36 km/h. it takes 25 s to cross a pole. What is the length of

this train?
a) 150 m b) 140 m c) 180 m d) 250 m e) None of these

3) A train takes 10s to cross a pole and 20 s to cross a platform of length 200 m.
What is the length of train?
a) 200 km b) 400 km c) 600 km d) 800 km e) None of these
4) Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in
27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds.
Find the ratio of their speeds?
a) 3 : 2 b) 4 : 1 c) 6 : 5 d) 8 : 3 e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 6)

1) Two trains of equal length are running on parallel lines in the same direction at
46 km/hr. and 36 km/hr. The faster train passes the slower train in 36 seconds. Find
the length of each train.
a) 40 m b) 50 m c) 100 m d) 95 m e) None of these
2) A train crosses a man with a speed of 72 km/hr in 15 sec. Find in how much time
it will cross another train which is 50% more long, then if the other train is standing
on platform?
a) 37.5 sec b) 40 sec c) 45 sec d) 55 sec e) None of these

3) Jetha lal starts driving from Mumbai to Gujarat at 9 a.m and Sundar starts driving
from Gujarat to Mumbai at 10 a.m. Sundar is 50% faster than Jetha lal. At what
time will they meet if Gujarat and Mumbai are 300 km apart and Jetha lal's speed is
50 km/h?
a) 12.30 pm b) 11 am c) 12 noon d) 11.30am e) None of these

4) Two trains have respective lengths as 230 m and 190 m. They cross each other
completely In 21 s, if they are travelling in the opposite direction and in 42 s, if they
are traveling in the same direction. Find the ratio of the speeds of the two trams.
a)3:1 b)4:1 c)3:2 (d) 1 : 3 e) None of these
5) A train starts from station A at 7:00 am and reaches station B at 7:00 pm. Anoth-
er train starts from station B at 9:00 am and reaches station A at 5:00 pm. Find the
time when they meet?
(a)2 pm (b)1 pm (c)1:30 pm (d) 2:30 pm (e) None of these
6) The Distance between two stations A and B is 450 km. A train starts at 4 pm with
60 km/h from A to B and another train starts from station B at 3:20 pm towards A
with a speed of 80 km/h. At what time both trains will meet?
(a) 6 : 30 pm (c) 6 : 50 am (b) 4 : 30 pm (d) 6 : 50 pm (e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 6)

7) A car after travelling a distance of 110 km develops a problem in the engine and
proceeds at 3/4th of its former speed and arrives at the destination 60 min late.
Had the problem developed 30 km further on, the car would have arrived 12 min
sooner. Find the original speed of the car.
(a) 45 km/h (c) 50 km/h (b) 60 km/h (d) 55 km/h (e) None of these
8) A train starts from delhi at 8:00 am. After 6 hrs there was a breakdown in the
train, due to which it travels 2/3 of its normal speed and hence becomes 40 min
late. If the breakdown would be 200 km further then it becomes 30 min late only.
Find the distance from delhi to agra?
(a) 4400 km (b) 4300 km (c) 4330 km (d) 4600 km (e) None of these
 TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED
(Set – 7)

1) A train after travelling 100km meets with an accident and than proceeds at 3/5
of its former speed and arrives at the 48 min late. Had the accident happened 30km
further on, it would have arrived 24min. sooner. Find the speed of the train and the
distance?
(a) 100 km, 50kmph (b) 160 km, 50 kmph (c) 130 km, 40 kmph (d) 130 km, 50
kmph (e) None of these

2) A train left station A for station B at a certain speed. After travelling for 100 km,
the train meets with an accident and could travel at 4/5th of the original speed and
reaches 45 minutes late at station B. Had the accident taken place 50 km further
on, it would have reached 30 minute late at station B. what is the distance between
station A and B?
a) 250 b) 200 c) 300 d) 400 e) None of these

3) After travelling 3 hr a train meets with an accident due to this it stops far on
hour. After this the train moves at 75% speed of its original speed and reaches to
destination 4 hours late. If the accident would occur at 150 km ahead in the same
line then the train reaches only 3.5 hour late. Then find the distance of journey and
the original speed of the train?
(a) 900 km, 90kmph (b) 1000 km, 100 kmph (c) 1200 km, 90 kmph (d) 1200 km,
100 kmph (e) None of these
4) A car after traveling 18 km from a point A developed some problem in the engine
and speed became 4/5 of its original speed. As a result, the car reached point B 45
minutes late. If the engine had developed the same problem after traveling 30 km
from A, then it would have reached B only 36 minutes late. The original speed of
the car (in km per hour) and the distance between the points A and B (in km.) is
(a) 20 km /hr, 78 km (b) 25 km/hr, 70 km (c) 20 km /hr, 80 km (d) 25 km /hr, 78
km (e) None of these
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(Set – 7)

5) Aman after travelling 60 km meets with an accident and then proceeds at ¾ of

his former rate and arrives at the destination 40 minutes late. Had the accident
happened 25 km further on, he would have arrived 10 minutes sooner. Find the
speed of Aman and the distance he had travelled?
(a) 100 km, 50kmph (b) 160 km, 50 kmph (c) 130 km, 40 kmph (d) 130 km, 50
kmph (e) None of these

6) A train of 300 m is travelling with the speed of 45 km/h when it passes point A
completely. At the same time, a motorbike starts from point A with the speed of 70
km/h. When it exactly reaches the middle point of the train, the train increases its
speed to 60 km/h and motorbike reduces its speed to 65 kmph. How much distance
will the motorbike travel while passing the train completely?
(a) 2.52 km (c) 2.37 km (b) 2 km (d) 3.56 km (e)None Of these