Quantitative Aptitude

Time, Speed and Distance

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Time, Speed and Distance Questions

Multiple choice

A river $2\ km$ wide is flows at the rate of $2\ km/h$. A boatman who can row a boat at a speed of $4\ km/h$ in still water, goes a distance of $2\ km$ upstream and then comes back. The time taken by him to complete his journey is

$60\ min$
$70\ min$
$80\ min$
$90\ min$

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Multiple choice

A boy walks to his school at a distance of 6 km with constant speed of $ 2.5 kmg^{-1}$ and walks back with a constant speed of $4kmh^{-1}$. His average speed for round trip expressed in $kmh^{-1}$, is

$\dfrac{24}{13}$
$\dfrac{40}{13}$
$3$
$\dfrac{1}{2}$

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Multiple choice

A scooter and a bicycle travel along the perimeter of a square PQRS of side length 45 km. They both start at the vertex P and go through Q,R,S,P,Q,R,S,... in that order several times. The scooter travels at a constant speed of 25 kMPH and the bicycle at 15 kMPH. After some time, they meet at a vertex of the square PQRS for the first time. This vertex is

$P$
$Q$
$R$
$S$

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Multiple choice

If the average speed of bus during the entire journey is 16 km/hr, and if in the first half of the distance the average speed of the bus was 10 km/hr then what was the average speed for the second half of trip?

$10 km/hr$
$40 km/hr$
$16 km/hr$
$20 km/hr$

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Multiple choice

A particle moving in a straight line covers half the distance with a speed of 3m/s. The other half of distance is covered with double speed 6m/s. The average sped of the particle is:

4.5 m/s
4 m/s
9 m/s
5 m/s

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Multiple choice

A body moving along a straight line travels one third of the total distance with a speed of 3.0$\mathrm { m } \mathrm { s } ^ { - 1 }$ . The remaining distance is covered with a speed of 4.0$\mathrm { ms } ^ { - 1 }$ for half the time and $5.0\mathrm { ms } ^ { - 1 }$ for the other half of the time. The average speed during the motion is

$4.0 m s ^ { - 1 }$
$6.0 m s ^ { - 1 }$
$3.8 m s ^ { - 1 }$
$2.4 m s ^ { - 1 }$

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Multiple choice

A man covers first $120$ km of his journey at $40$ km/hr, next $145$ km at $58$ km/hr and last $35$ km half an hour Find his average speed during the whole journey.

$20$ km/hr
$30$ km/hr
$40$ km/hr
$50$ km/hr

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Multiple choice

A car travels first 39 km distance in 45 minute while next 25 km distance in 35 minutes. What is its average speed?

$45$ km/h
$35$ km/h
$48$ km/h
$90$ km/h

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Multiple choice

A vehicle travels half or the total distance with speed $36 km/h$ and next half with $54 km/h$. The average speed is

$12ms^{-1}$
$12.5ms^{-1}$
$43.2km/h$
$7.5ms^{-1}$

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Multiple choice

A car covers $\frac{2}{5}$ th of a distance at a speed of 80 km/h and $\frac{3}{5}$ th of the distance at a speed of 60 km/h. Average speed of car for complete journey is

65 km/h
70.5 km/h
66.67 km/h
77.5 km/h

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Multiple choice

The average speed of a car which covers half the distance with a speed of $20 m/s$ and other half with a speed of $30 m/s$ in equal intervals of time is

$25 m/s$
$0 m/s$
$24 m/s$
$2.4 m/s$

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Multiple choice

A motorist covered the first $20\ km$ of his journey in $30$ minutes and the remaining $29\ km$ in $40$ minutes. His average speed in $\ km/hr$ is:

$41\dfrac{3}{4}$
$42$
$49$
$57\dfrac{1}{6}$

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Multiple choice

A car travels a distance s km on a straight road in two hours and then returns to the starting point in the next three hours. Its average speed in five hours (in km/h)

$\dfrac{s}{5}$
$\dfrac{5s}{12}$
$\dfrac{2s}{5}$
$Zero$

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Multiple choice

A particle moves along x-axis with speed $6 m/s$ for the first half distance of a journey and the second half distance with a speed $3 m/s$. the average speed in the total journey is

$5 m/s$
$4.5 m/s$
$4 m/s$
$2 m/s$

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Multiple choice

Two cars are moving with same velocity of $30\ km\ h^{-1}$ maintaining a distance of $5\ km$ between them. Speed of third car moving in the opposite direction and meeting the two cars at an interval of $240\ s$ is

$45 \:km\ h^{-1}$
$30 \:km\ h^{-1}$
$55 \:km\ h^{-1}$
$35 \:km\ h^{-1}$

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