Quiz Discussion

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

Two trains starting at the same time from two-stations 300 km apart and going in opposite directions, cross each other at a distance of 160 km from one of them. The ratio of their speeds is :

• 1] 7 : 9
• 2] 16 : 20
• 3] 8 : 7
• 4] 8 : 12

A car travels at a speed of 60 km/hr and covers a particular distance in one hour. How long will it take for another car to cover the same distance at 40 km/hr ?

• 1]

  \(\frac{5}{2}\) hours

• 2]

  2 hours

• 3]

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

• 4]

  1 hour

Vinay and Versha run a race with their speed in the ratio of 5 : 3. They prefer to run on a circular track of circumference 1.5 km. What is the distance covered by Vinay when he passes Versha for the seventh time?

• 1] 25.25 km
• 2] 26.25 km
• 3] 13.2 km
• 4] 14.5 km

A man performs \(\frac{2}{15}\) of the total journey by rail, \(\frac{9}{20}\) by bus and the remaining 10 km, on the cycle. His total journey is :

• 1] 31.2 km
• 2] 38.4 km
• 3] 32.8 km
• 4] 24 km

A, B and C start together from the same place to walk round a circular path of length 12km. A walks at the rate of 4 km/h, B 3 km/h and C \(\frac{3}{2}\) km/h. They will meet together at the starting place at the end of:

• 1] 10 hours
• 2] 12 hours
• 3] 15 hours
• 4] 24 hours

Mr A started half an hour later than usual for the marketplace. But by increasing his speed to \(\frac{3}{2} \)times his usual speed he reached 10 minutes earlier than usual. What is his usual time for this journey?

• 1] 1 hours
• 2] 2 hours
• 3] 3 hours
• 4] 45 minutes
• 5] None of these

A man walks a certain distance in certain time, if he had gone 3 km per hour faster, he would have taken 1 hour less than the scheduled time. If he had gone 2 km per hour slower, he would have taken one hour longer on the road. The distance (in km) is :

• 1] 60
• 2] 45
• 3] 65
• 4] 80

From two places, 60 km apart A and B start towards each other at the same time and meet each other after 6 hours. If A traveled with \(\frac{2}{3}\) of his usual speed and B traveled with double his speed they would have met after 5 hours. The speed of A is :

• 1] 4 km/hr
• 2] 6 km/hr
• 3] 10 km/hr
• 4] 12 km/hr

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