Quiz Discussion

Running at \(\frac{5}{4}\) of his usual speed, an athlete improves his timing by 5 minutes. The time he usually takes to run the same distance is:

• 1] 30 min.
• 2] 28 min.
• 3] 25 min.
• 4] 23 min.

A is twice fast as B and B is thrice fast as C. The journey covered by C in 78 minutes will be covered by A in :

• 1] 13 min
• 2] 15.5 min
• 3] 17 min
• 4] 12 min

A plane left half an hour later than the scheduled time and in order to reach its destination 1500 kilometers away in time, it had to increase its speed by 33.33 percent over its usual speed. Find its increased speed.

• 1] 250 kmph
• 2] 500 kmph
• 3] 750 kmph
• 4] 1000 kmph
• 5] 1200 kmph

Two persons A and B start simultaneously from P and Q respectively. A meets B at a distance of 60m from P. After A reaches Q and B reaches P, they turn around and start walking in opposite direction, now B meets A at a distance of 40m from Q. Find distance between P and Q?

• 1] 160 m
• 2] 100 m
• 3] 140 m
• 4] 105 m
• 5] None of These

A person X starts from Lucknow and another person Y starts from Kanpur to meet each other. Speed of X is 25 km/h, while Y is 35 km/h. If the distance between Lucknow and Kanpur be 120 km and both X and Y start their journey at the same time, when they will meet ?

• 1]

  1 hours later

• 2]

  2 hours later

• 3]

  \(\frac{1}{2}\) hours later

• 4]

  3 hours later

A man can reach a certain place in 30 hours. If he reduces his speed by 1/15th, he goes 10 km less in that time. Find his speed in km/ hr?

• 1]

  9 km/hr

• 2]

  2 km/hr

• 3]

  7 km/hr

• 4]

  5 km/hr

The distance between two places R and S is 42 km. Anita starts from R with a uniform speed of 4 km/hr towards S and at the same time Romita starts from S towards R also with some uniform speed. They meet each other after 6 hours. The speed of Romita is :

• 1] 18 km/hr
• 2] 20 km/hr
• 3] 3 km/hr
• 4] 8 km/hr

A car travels the first one third of a certain distance with a speed of 10 km/hr, the next one third distance with a speed of 20 km/hr and the last one third distance with a speed of 60 km/hr. thee average speed of the car for the whole journey is :

• 1] 18 km/hr
• 2] 24 km/hr
• 3] 30 km/hr
• 4] 36 km/hr

A person can row a boat d km upstream and the same distance downstream in 5 hours 15 minutes. Also, he can row the boat 2d km upstream in 7 hours. How long will it take to row the same distance 2d km downstream?

• 1]

  \(\frac{{3}}{{2}}\) hours

• 2]

  7 hours

• 3]

  \(\frac{{29}}{{4}}\) hours

• 4]

  \(\frac{{7}}{{2}}\) hours

A soldier fired two bullets at an interval of 335 seconds moving at a uniform speed V1. A terrorist who was running ahead of the soldier in same direction, hears the two shots at an interval of 330 seconds. If the speed of sound is 1188 km/h, then who is the faster and how much?

• 1] Soldier, 22 km/h
• 2] Terrorist, 25 km/h
• 3] Soldier, 18 km/h
• 4] Terrorist, 20 km/h
• 5] None of these