Quiz Discussion

A ship, 40 kilometers from the shore, springs a leak which admits \(3\frac{3}{4}\) tonnes of water in 12 minutes. 60 tonnes would suffice to sink her, but the ship's pumps can throw out 12 tonnes of water in one hour. Find the average rate of sailing, so that she may reach the shore just as she begging to sink?

 

Course Name: Quantitative Aptitude

  • 1]

    \(1\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

  • 2]

    \(2\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

  • 3]

    \(3\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

  • 4]

    \(4\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

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A bus covers three successive 3 km stretches at speed of 10 km/hr, 20 km/hr and 60 km/hr respectively. Its average speed over this distance is :

  • 1] 30 km/hr
  • 2] 25 km/hr
  • 3] 18 km/hr
  • 4] 10 km/hr
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The speed of a bus is 72 kmph. The distance covered by the bus in 5 sec is :

  • 1] 50 metres
  • 2] 74.5 metres
  • 3] 100 metres
  • 4] 60 metres
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A man on tour travels 160 km by car at 64 km/hr and another 160 km by bus at 80 km/hr. The average speed for the whole journey is :

  • 1] 35.55 km/hr
  • 2] 36 km/hr
  • 3] 71.11 km/hr
  • 4] 71 km/hr
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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
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A thief is noticed by a policeman from a distance of 200 m. The thief starts running and the policeman chases him. The thief and the policeman run at the rate of 10 km and 11 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 6 minutes ?

  • 1]

    100 m

  • 2]

    150 m

  • 3]

    190 m

  • 4]

    290 m

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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
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A thief sees a jeep at a distance of 250 m, coming towards him at 36 km/h. Thief takes 5 seconds to realize that there is nothing but the police is approaching him by the jeep and start running away from police at 54 km/h. But police realise after 10 second, when the thief starts running away, that he is actually a thief and gives chase at 72 km/h. How long after thief saw police did catchup with him and what is the distance police had travel to do so?

  • 1] 50 s, 1000 m
  • 2] 65 s, 1150 m
  • 3] 65 s, 1300 m
  • 4] 45 s, 1050 m
  • 5] None of these
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A gun is fired at a distance of 1.7 km from Ram and he hears the sound after 25 seconds. The speed of sound in meter per second is

  • 1] 60 m/s
  • 2] 62 m/s
  • 3] 64 m/s
  • 4] 68 m/s
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There are 8 equidistant points A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H in the clockwise direction on the periphery of a circle. In a time interval t, a person reaches from A to C with uniform motion while another person reaches the point E from the point B during the same time interval with uniform motion. Both the persons move in the same direction along the circumference of the circle and start at the same instant. How much time after the start, will the two persons meet each other ?

  • 1] 4t
  • 2] 7t
  • 3] 9t
  • 4] Never
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A train leaves Delhi at 4.1 pm and reaches Aligargh at 7.25 pm. The average speed of the train is 40 km/hr. What is the distance from Delhi to Aligarh ?

  • 1] 120 km
  • 2] 130 km
  • 3] 135 km
  • 4] 140 km
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