Quiz Discussion

A man performs \(\frac{2}{15}\) of the total journey by rail, \(\frac{9}{20}\) by bus and the remaining 10 km, on the cycle. His total journey is :

• 1] 31.2 km
• 2] 38.4 km
• 3] 32.8 km
• 4] 24 km

Each wheel of a car is making 5 revolutions per second. If the diameter of a wheel is 84 cm, then the speed of the car in cm/sec would be :

• 1] 420 cm/sec
• 2] 264 cm/sec
• 3] 1000 cm/sec
• 4] 1320 cm/sec

A ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 18 miles from shore, a sea plane, whose speed is ten times that of the ship, is sent to deliver mail. How far from the shore does the sea plane catch up with the ship?

• 1] 24 miles
• 2] 25 miles
• 3] 22 miles
• 4] 20 miles
• 5] None of these

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.

The speed of two trains are in the ratio 6 : 7. If the second train runs 364 km in 4 hours, then the speed of first train is :

• 1] 60 km/hr
• 2] 72 km/hr
• 3] 78 km/hr
• 4] 84 km/hr

A thief seeing a policeman at a distance of 150 metres starts running at 10 kmph and the policeman gives immediate chase at 12 kmph. When the thief is overtaken the thief has traveled a distance of:

• 1] 750 m
• 2] 900 m
• 3] 800 m
• 4] 1 km

A man goes to a place on bicycle at speed of 16 km/hr and comes back at lower speed. If the average speed is 6.4 km/hr in total, then the return speed (in km/hr) is :

• 1] 10 km/hr
• 2] 8 km/hr
• 3] 6 km/hr
• 4] 4 km/hr

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]

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

A farmer travelled a distance of 61 km in 9 hours. He travelled partly on foot @ 4 km/hr and partly on bicycle @ 9 km/hr. The distance travelled on foot is:

• 1] 14 km
• 2] 15 km
• 3] 16 km
• 4] 17 km

A car driver, driving in a fog, passes a pedestrian who was walking at the rate of 2 km/h in the same direction. The pedestrian could see the car for 6 minutes and it was visible to him up to distance of 0.6 km. what was speed of the car?

• 1] 30 kmph
• 2] 15 kmph
• 3] 20 kmph
• 4] 8 kmph
• 5] 12 kmph