Quiz Discussion

A plan left 40 minutes late due to bad whether and order to reach its destination 1600 km away in time, it had increase its speed by 400 kmph from its usual speed. Find the usual speed of the plane?

• 1] 600 km/hour
• 2] 400 km/hour
• 3] 1000 km/hour
• 4] 800 km/hour

A dog start chasing to a cat 2 hour later. It takes 2 hours to dog to catch the cat. If the speed of the dog is 30 km/h. what is the speed of cat?

• 1] 10 km/h
• 2] 12 km/h
• 3] 15 km/h
• 4] 20 km/h

A dog after traveling 50 km meets a swami who counsels him to go slower. He then proceeds at \(\frac{3}{4} \)of his former speed and arrives at his destination 35 min late. Had the meeting occurred 24 km further the dog would have reached its destination 25 min late. The speed of the dog is:

• 1] 48 kmph
• 2] 36 kmph
• 3] 54 kmph
• 4] 58 kmph

A train, 110 m long is running at a speed of 60 km/hr. How many seconds does it to cross another train, 170 m long standing on parallel track ?

• 1] 15.6 seconds
• 2] 16.8 seconds
• 3] 17.2 seconds
• 4] 18 seconds

A man on tour travels first 160 km at 64 km/hr and the next 160 km at 80 km/hr. The average speed for the first 320 km of the tour is:

• 1] 35.55 km/hr
• 2] 36 km/hr
• 3] 71.11 km/hr
• 4] 71 km/hr

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

A train running at \(\frac{7}{11}\) of its own speed reached a place in 22 hours. How much time could be saved if the train would have run at its own speed?

• 1] 7 hr
• 2] 8 hr
• 3] 14 hr
• 4] 16 hr

A star is 8.1 × 1013 km away from the earth. Suppose light travels at the speed of 3.0 × 105 km per second. How long will it take the light from the star to reach the earth ?

• 1] 7.5 × 103 hours
• 2] 7.5 × 104 hours
• 3] 2.7 × 1010 seconds
• 4] 2.7 × 1011 seconds

If a train runs at 40 kmph, it reaches its destination late by 11 minutes but if it runs at 50 kmph, it is late by 5 min only. The correct time for the train to complete its journey is :

• 1] 13 min
• 2] 15 min
• 3] 19 min
• 4] 21 min

An ant moved for several seconds and covered 3 mm in the first second and 4 mm more in each successive second than its predecessor. If the ant had covered 1 mm in the first second and 8 mm more in each successive second, then the difference between the path it would cover during the same time and actual path would be more than 6 mm but less than 30 mm. find the time for which the ant moved (in seconds).

• 1] 5 s
• 2] 4 s
• 3] 6 s
• 4] 2 s
• 5] None of these