Quiz Discussion

The average speed of a bus is one-third of the speed of a train. The train covers 1125 km in 15 hours. How much distance will the bus cover in 36 minutes ?

• 1] 12 km
• 2] 18 km
• 3] 21 km
• 4] 75 km
• 5] None of these

Two trains start from the same point simultaneously and in the same direction. The first train travels at 40 km /h, and the speed of the second train is 25% more than the speed of first train. Thirty minutes later, a third train starts from same point and in the same direction. It over takes the second train 90 minutes later than it overtook the first train. What is the speed of the third train?

• 1] 20 km/h
• 2] 40 km/h
• 3] 60 km/h
• 4] 50 km/h
• 5] 80 km/h

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 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 cyclist drove one kilometre, with the wind in his back, in 3 minutes and drove the same way back, against the wind, in 4 minutes. If we assume that the cyclist always puts constant force on the pedals, how much time would it take him to drive 1 km without wind ?

• 1]

  \(2\frac{1}{3}\) min

• 2]

  \(2\frac{3}{7}\) min

• 3]

  \(3\frac{3}{7}\) min

• 4]

  \(3\frac{7}{12}\) min

A man walk a certain distance and rides back in 4 hours 30 minutes. He could ride both ways in 3 hours. The time required by the man to walk both ways is :

• 1] 4 hours 30 minutes
• 2] 4 hours 45 minutes
• 3] 5 hours
• 4] 6 hours

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

Walking \({\frac{6}{7}}\) th of his usual speed, a man is 12 minutes too late. The usual time taken by him to cover that distance is :

• 1] 1 hour
• 2] 1 hr 12 min
• 3] 1 hr 15 min
• 4] 1 hr 20 min

Due to the technical snag in the signal system two trains start approaching each other on the same track from two different stations, 240 km away each other. When the train starts a bird also starts moving to and fro between the two trains at 60 kmph touching each train each time. The bird initially sitting on the top of the engine of one of the trains and it moves so till these trains collide. If these trains collide one and half hour after start, then how many kilometers bird travels till the time of collision of trains?

• 1] 90 km
• 2] 130 km
• 3] 120 km
• 4] 95 km
• 5] None of these

If a distance of 50 m is covered in 1 minute, 90 m in 2 minutes and 130 m 3 minutes. Find the distance covered in 15th minute.

• 1] 610 minutes
• 2] 750 minutes
• 3] 1000 minutes
• 4] 650 minutes