Quiz Discussion

A man takes 50 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] 40 min

A man goes downstream with a boat to some destination and returns upstream to his original place in 5 hours. If the speed of the boat in still water and the stream are 10 kmph and 4 kmph respectively, the distance of the destination from the starting place is:

• 1] 16 km
• 2] 18 km
• 3] 21 km
• 4] 25 km

A coolie standing on a railway platform observe that a train going in one direction takes 4 second to pass him. Another train of same length going in opposite direction takes 5 seconds to pass him. The time taken (in seconds) by two train to cross each other will be:

• 1]

  35 seconds

• 2]

  36.5 seconds

• 3]

  \(\frac{{40}}{9}\) seconds

• 4]

  36 seconds

A boy rides his bicycle 10 km at an average speed of 12 km/hr and again travels 12 km at an average speed of 10 km//hr. His average speed for the entire trip is approximately:

• 1] 10.4 km/hr
• 2] 10.8 km/hr
• 3] 11 km/hr
• 4] 12.2 km/hr

Two buses start from a bus terminal with a speed of 20 km/h at interval of 10 minutes. What is the speed of a man coming from the opposite direction towards the bus terminal if he meets the buses at interval of 8 minutes?

• 1] 3 km/h
• 2] 4 km/h
• 3] 5 km/h
• 4] 7 km/h

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

The distance between two places R and S is 42 km. Anita starts from R with a uniform speed of 4 km/hr towards S and at the same time Romita starts from S towards R also with some uniform speed. They meet each other after 6 hours. The speed of Romita is :

• 1] 18 km/hr
• 2] 20 km/hr
• 3] 3 km/hr
• 4] 8 km/hr

A motorboat in still water travels at speed of 36 kmph. It goes 56 km upstream in 1 hour 45 minutes. The time taken by it to cover the same distance down the stream will be:

• 1] 2 Hours 25 Minutes
• 2] 3 Hours
• 3] 1 Hours 24 Minutes
• 4] 2 Hours 21 Minutes

The distance between two cities A and B is 330 km. A train starts from A at 8 am and travels towards B at 60 km/hr. Another train starts from B at 9 am and travels towards A at 75 km/hr. At what time do they meet ?

• 1] 10.00 am
• 2] 10.30 am
• 3] 11.00 am
• 4] 11.30 am

A boy rides his bicycle 10 km at an average speed of 12km/hr and again travels 12km at an average speed of the 10km/hr. His average speed for the entire trip is ?

• 1]

  10.8

• 2]

  10.4

• 3]

  11

• 4]

  12