Quiz Discussion

A 6 cm long cigarette burns up in 15 minutes if no puff is taken.For every puff, it burns three times as fast during the duration of the puff.If the cigarette burns itself in 13 minutes, then how many puffs has the smoker taken if the average puff lasted 3 seconds?

• 1] 17
• 2] 18
• 3] 20
• 4] 22
• 5] None of these

Two trains starting at the same time from two-stations 300 km apart and going in opposite directions, cross each other at a distance of 160 km from one of them. The ratio of their speeds is :

• 1] 7 : 9
• 2] 16 : 20
• 3] 8 : 7
• 4] 8 : 12

Amit travelled black to home in a car, after visiting his friend in a distant village. When he stated at his friend's house the car had exactly 18 litres of petrol in it. He travelled along at a steady 40 kilometres per hour and managed a 10 kilometres per litre of petrol. As the car was old, the fuel tank lost fuel at the rate of half a litre per hour. Amit was lucky as his car stopped just in front of his home because it had rum out of fuel and he only just made it. How far was it from his friend's home to Amit's home ?

• 1] 150 km
• 2] 170 km
• 3] 180 km
• 4] None of these

Four people are running around a circular ground from a point on the circumference at 9.00 am. For one round, these four persons take respectively 40, 50, 60 and 30 minutes. At what time will they meet together again ?

• 1] 4.30 pm
• 2] 7.00 pm
• 3] 6.00 pm
• 4] 5.30 pm

The speed of a bus is 72 kmph. The distance covered by the bus in 5 sec is :

• 1] 50 metres
• 2] 74.5 metres
• 3] 100 metres
• 4] 60 metres

A man travels 600 km by train at 80 km/hr, 800 km by ship at 40 km/hr, 500 km by aeroplane at 400 km/hr and 100 km by car at 50 km/hr. What is the average speed for the entire distance :

• 1]

  \({ \text{60 km/hr}}\)

• 2]

  \(60\frac{5}{123}{ \text{ km/hr}}\)

• 3]

  \({ \text{62 km/hr}}\)

• 4]

  \(65\frac{5}{123}{ \text{ km/hr}}\)

The average speed of a train is 20% less on the return journey than on onward journey. The train halts for half an hour at the destination station before starting on the return journey. If the total time taken for the to and fro journey is 23 hours, covering a distance of 1000 km, the speed of the train on the return journey is:

• 1] 60 km/hr
• 2] 50 km/hr
• 3] 40 km/hr
• 4] 55 km/hr

A passenger train 150 m long is travelling with a speed of 36 km/hr. If a man is cycling in the direction of train at 9 km/hr, the time taken by the train to pass the man is :

• 1] 10 seconds
• 2] 15 seconds
• 3] 18 seconds
• 4] 20 seconds

A train travelling at 48 kmph crosses another train, having half of its length and travelling in opposite direction at 42 kmph, in 12 seconds. It also passes a railway platform in 45 seconds. The length of railway platform is:

• 1] 200m
• 2] 300m
• 3] 350m
• 4] 400m

A man covers a total distance of 100 km on bicycle. For the first 2 hours, the speed was 20 km/hr and for the rest of the journey, it came down to 10 km/hr. The average speed will be :

• 1]

  \(12\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

• 2]

  13 km/hr

• 3]

  \(\frac{1}{8}\) km/hr

• 4]

  20 km/hr