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 railway passenger counts the telegraph poles on the rail road as he passes them. The telegraph poles are at a distance of 50 metres. What will be his count in 4 hours, if the speed of the train is 45 km per hour.

• 1] 600
• 2] 2500
• 3] 3600
• 4] 5000

The speed of A and B are in the ratio 3 : 4. A takes 20 minutes more than B to reach a destination. Time in which A reach the destination?

• 1]

  \(1\frac{1}{3}\) hours

• 2]

  2 hours

• 3]

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

• 4]

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

Two ports A and B are 300 km apart. Two ships leave A for B such that the second leaves 8 hours after the first. The ships arrive at B simultaneously. Find the time the slower ship spent on the trip if the speed of one of them is 10 km/h higher than that of the other.

• 1] 25 hours
• 2] 20 hours
• 3] 15 hours
• 4] 20 hours
• 5] 24 hours

Due to inclement weather, an Aeroplane reduce its speed by 300 km/hr and reached the destination of 1200 km late by 2 hours. Then the schedule duration of the flight was :

• 1] 1 hour
• 2] 1.5 hours
• 3] 2 hours
• 4] 2.5 hours

A man takes 100 minutes to cover a certain distance at a speed of 6 km/hr. If he walks with a speed of 10 km/hr, he covers the same distance in :

• 1] 10 min
• 2] 20 min
• 3] 30 min
• 4] 60 min
• 5] 80 min

A thief running at 8 km/hr is chased by a policeman whose speed is 10 km/hr. If the thief is 100 metres ahead of the policeman, then the time required for the policeman to catch the thief will be :

• 1] 2 minutes
• 2] 3 minutes
• 3] 6 minutes
• 4] 10 minutes

A man crosses a road 250 metres wide in 75 seconds. His speed in km/hr is :

• 1] 10 km/hr
• 2] 12 km/hr
• 3] 12.5 km/hr
• 4] 15 km/hr

An individual is cycling at a speed of 25 km per hour. He catches his predecessor who had started earlier in two hours. What is the speed of his predecessor who had started 3 hours earlier ?

• 1] 15 kmph
• 2] 12 kmph
• 3] 10 kmph
• 4] 8 kmph

P and Q are 27 km away. Two trains with speed of 24 km/hr and 18 km/hr respectively start simultaneously from P and Q and travel in the same direction. They meet at a point R beyond Q. Distance QR is :

• 1] 126 km
• 2] 81 km
• 3] 48 km
• 4] 36 km