Quiz Discussion

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

A train travels at a speed of 30 km/hr for 12 minutes and at a speed of 45 km/hr for the next 8 minutes. The average speed of the train for this journey is :

• 1] 30 km/hr
• 2] 36 km/hr
• 3] 37.5 km/hr
• 4] 48 km/hr

A 6 × 6 grid is cut from an 8 × 8 chessboard. In how many ways can we put two identical coins, one on the black square and one on a white square on the grid, such that they are not placed in the same row or in the same column?

• 1] 216 ways
• 2] 324 ways
• 3] 144 ways
• 4] 108 ways

A boy stated from his house on bicycle at 10 am at a speed of 12 km per hour. His elder brother started after 1 hr 15 min on scooter along the same path and caught him at 1.30 pm. The speed of the scooter will be (in km/hr) ?

• 1]

  4.5 km/hr

• 2]

  36 km/hr

• 3]

  \(18\frac{2}{3}\) km/hr

• 4]

  9 km/hr

Two trains start from P and Q respectively and travel towards each other at a speed of 50 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively. By the time they meet the first train has travelled 100 km more than second. The distance between P and Q is:

• 1]

  500 km

• 2]

  630 km

• 3]

  660 km

• 4]

  900 km

A hunter fired two shots from the branch of a tree at an interval of 76 seconds. A tiger separating too fast hears the two shots at an interval of 83 seconds. If the velocity of the sound is 1195.2 km/h, then find the speed of the tiger.

• 1] 112.8 km/h
• 2] 100.8 km/h
• 3] 80.16 km/h
• 4] 85.16 km/h
• 5] None of these

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

Two runner start running together for a certain distance, one at 5 km/h and another at 8 km/h. The former arrives one and half an hour before the latter. The distance in Km is :

• 1] 12 km
• 2] 20 km
• 3] 25 km
• 4] 36 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 starts 3 Minutes after B for a place 4.5 km distant. B, on reaching his destination, immediately returns and after walking a km meets A. If A can walk 1 Km in 18 minutes,then what is B's speed?

• 1] 4 km/h
• 2] 6 km/h
• 3] 7 km/h
• 4] 5 km/h