Quiz Discussion

A car takes 15 minutes less to cover a distance of 75 km, if it increases its speed by 10 km/hr from its usual speed. How much time would it take to cover a distance of 300 km using this speed ?

• 1]

  5 hrs

• 2]

  \(5\frac{1}{2}\) hrs

• 3]

  6 hrs

• 4]

  \(6\frac{1}{2}\) hrs

In a race of 200 metres, B can give a start of 10 metres to A and C can give a start of 20 metres to B. The start that C can give to A, in the same race, is :

• 1] 30 metres
• 2] 25 metres
• 3] 29 metres
• 4] 27 metres

A car traveled first 36 km at 6 km/h faster than the usual speed, but it returned the same distance at 6 km/h slower than usual speed. I the total time taken by car is 8 hours, for how many hours does it traveled at the faster speed ?

• 1] 4 hours
• 2] 3 hours
• 3] 2 hours
• 4] 1 hours

Sabarmati express takes 18 seconds to pass completely through a station 162 m long and 15 seconds through another station 120 m long. The length of the train is :

• 1] 132 m
• 2] 100 m
• 3] 80 m
• 4] 90 m

From two places, 60 km apart A and B start towards each other at the same time and meet each other after 6 hours. If A traveled with \(\frac{2}{3}\) of his usual speed and B traveled with double his speed they would have met after 5 hours. The speed of A is :

• 1] 4 km/hr
• 2] 6 km/hr
• 3] 10 km/hr
• 4] 12 km/hr

A man starts climbing a 11 m high wall at 5 pm. In each minute he climbs up 1 m but slips down 50 cm. At what time will he climb the wall?

• 1] 5:30 pm
• 2] 5:21 pm
• 3] 5:25 pm
• 4] 5:27 pm

A bus covered a certain distance from village A to village B at the speed of 60 km/hr. However on its return journey it got stuck in traffic and covered the same distance at the speed of 40 km/hr and took 2 hours more to reach its destination. What is the distance covered between villages A and B ?

• 1] 200 km
• 2] 240 km
• 3] 260 km
• 4] Cannot be determined
• 5] None of these

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

A car traveling with \(\frac{5}{7}\) of its usual speed covers 42 km in 1 hr 40 min 48 sec. What is the usual speed of the car?

• 1]

  \(17\frac{6}{7}\) km/hr

• 2]

  35 km/hr

• 3]

  25 km/hr

• 4]

  30 km/hr

A postman goes with a speed of 36 km/h what is the speed of postman in m/s?

• 1] 4.5 m/s
• 2] 6 m/s
• 3] 5 m/s
• 4] 10 m/s