Quiz Discussion

A train without stopping travels 60 km/h and with stoppage 40 km/h. What is the time taken for stoppage on a route 300 km?

• 1] 10 hours
• 2] 20 hours
• 3] 5 hours
• 4] 2.5 hours

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

A monkey climbs a 60 m high pole. In first minute he climbs 6 m and slips down 3 m in the next minute. How much time is required by it to reach the top?

• 1] 35 minutes
• 2] 33 minutes
• 3] 37 minutes
• 4] 40 minutes

A distance of 425 km separates two trains moving towards each other at a speed of 200 km/hr each. What will be the distance between them after 1 hr 30 min, if they reduce their speed by half, every half an hour ?

• 1] 75 km
• 2] 120 km
• 3] 150 km
• 4] 200 km

A train covers a distance of 10 km in 12 minutes. If its speed is decreased by 5 km/hr, the time taken by it to cover the same distance will be :

• 1]

  10 minutes

• 2]

  13 minutes 20 seconds

• 3]

  13 minutes

• 4]

  11 minutes 20 seconds

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 train covers a distance of \(193\frac{1}{3}\) km in \(4\frac{1}{4}\) hours with one stoppage of 10 minutes, two of 5 minutes, and one of 3 minutes on the way. The average speed of the train is :

• 1] 48 km/hr
• 2] 50 km/hr
• 3] 55 km/hr
• 4] 60 km/hr

A salesman travels a distance of 50 km in 2 hours and 30 minutes. How much faster, in kilometres per hour, n a n average must he travel to make such a trip in 5656 hour less time?

• 1]

  10

• 2]

  20

• 3]

  30

• 4]

  None Of these

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

Ramesh travels 760 km to his home, partly by train and partly by car. He takes 8 hours, if he travels 160 km by train and the rest by car. He takes 12 minutes more, if he travels 240 km by train and the rest by car. What are the spends of the car and the train respectively ?

• 1] 90 km/hr, 60 km/hr
• 2] 100 km/hr, 80 km/hr
• 3] 80 km/hr, 70 km/hr
• 4] 100 km/hr, 90 km/hr