TIME & DISTANCE

14. Shatabdi Express left Delhi 40 min late. After covering half of the distance it increased its usual speed
by 1/6 of original speed and reached Chandigarh on scheduled time. Find usual time taken by Shatabdi
Express to cover complete journey.
15. If a car increases its speed from 24 km/h to 40 km/h, it would reach certain destination 1 hours early.
Find the distance.
16. A certain distance is covered by a person at a certain speed. If another person covers 25% of the distance
in triple the time, the ratio of the speed of the first person to that of the second person is:
17. A takes 2 hours 30 minutes more than B to walk 40 km. If A doubles his speed, then he can make it in 1
hour less than B. How much time (in hours) does A require for walking a 40 km distance?
18. A man goes from his house to a vegetable market at the speed of 15 km/h and walked back at the speed
of 10 km/h. If the whole journey took 2 hours 30 minutes, find the distance from his house to the
vegetable market (in km).
19. A boy covers a certain distance between his house and school on a cycle. Having an average speed of 10
km/h, he is late by 10 min. However, with an average speed of 15 km/h, he reaches the school in 5 min,
earlier. Find the distance (in km) between his house and school.
20. A boy when goes to his school by 12 km/hr speed, reaches 20 mins late and when he covers the distance
by 16 km/hr, reaches 5 mins late. Find speed by which he may reach on time and also find distance of
his school.
21. When a person decreases its speed by 6 km/h, reaches his destination 20 minutes late while when he
decreases its speed by 2 km/h, he reaches 5 minutes late. Find actual speed of the person?
22. Annu covers certain distance with her own speed, but when she reduces her speed by 10 km/hr, her time
duration for the journey increases by 40 hr, but when she increases her original speed by 15 km/hr time
taken by her is 10 hours less than the original time. Find the distance covered by her.
23. If speed of a train increases by 10 km/hour then time taken to reach destination decreases by 1 hour. If
speed increases by 10 km/hr further, time again reduces by 45 minutes. Find distance covered by the
train.
24. Distance between two stations P and Q is 500 km. A train covers the journey from P to Q at 60 km per
hour and returns back to P with a uniform speed of 40 km per hour. Find the average speed of the train
during the whole journey
25. A car travels with a speed of 21 m/sec in the first 10 minutes, 9.0 km in the next 10 minutes and 10 km
in the last 10 minutes of its journey. What is the average speed of the car in km/h during its entire
journey?
26. In a journey of three unequal laps, a car covers a distance of 200 km in 4 h in the first lap, while another
162 km at the speed of 15 m/s in the second lap. It covered the remaining distance of the final lap in 4 h
such that the average speed of the car for entire journey was 50 km/h. What was the speed of the car in
the third lap of the journey?
27. The ratio of the distance between two places A and B to the distance between places B and C is 3 : 5. A
man travels from A to B at a speed of x km/h and from B to C at a speed of 50 km/h. If his average
speed for the entire journey is 40 km/h, then what is the value of (x – 10) : (x + 1)?
28. Speed of a car without stoppage is 48 km/h and that of with stoppage is 36 km/h. If car stops each time
for 5 min then find the number of stoppage in 1 hr 20 min
29. Shyam starts to walk from A towards B at 10 a.m. and Radha starts to walk from B towards A at 10 a.m.
and after meeting at C they both reach their destination in 24 and 54 minutes respectively. Find out the
time they meet at C.
30. A and B started their journeys from X to Y and Y to X, respectively. After crossing each other, A and B
completed remaining parts of their journeys in 6 1/8 hours and 8 hours, respectively. If the speed of A is
32 km/h, then the speed, in km/h, of B is:
31. A and B start walking towards each-other at 9 : 00 a.m. from Jaipur and Kanpur respectively. Speed of
A and B are 70 km/hr and 90 km/hr respectively. They meet at Delhi at a certain time and have lunch
together. At 10 : 39 a.m. They again start walking towards their destination. If A reached at Kanpur on
12 : 27 p.m., how much time they spent together to do lunch?
32. A thief stole jewellery from a shop at 8:15 p.m. and left on a bike at a speed of 60 km/h. The police were
informed at 8:30 p.m. If the police want to arrest the thief at 9:00 p.m., what should be the minimum
speed of the police jeep?
33. A thief steals an item and escapes, running at a speed of 15 km/h. A policeman arrives at the spot of the
crime after 4 minutes and immediately starts chasing the thief. 16 minutes after the policeman started to
chase the thief; there is still a gap of 200 m between the two. At what distance from the spot of the crime
will the policeman catch up the thief and what is the speed (in km/h) of the policeman?
34. Two cities A and B are 135 km apart on a straight track. One car starts from A at 8 a.m. and travels
towards B at 25 km/h. Another car starts from B at 9 a.m. and travels towards A at a speed of 30 km/h.
At what time will they meet?
35. Two trains leave Agra for Calcutta at 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., respectively, and travel at 240 km/h and
300 km/h, respectively. How many kilometres from Agra will the two trains meet?
36. From point H, at 6 : 30 pm, a train starts moving towards point K at the speed of 90 km/hr. Another train
starts moving from point K at 7:30 p.m. towards point H at the speed of 72 km/hr. Both the train meet at
11:30 p.m. at point J. What is the ratio of the distance HJ and KJ?
37. A train starts running at a uniform speed of 60 km/h from station P towards station Q. At the same time
another train starts running from station Q towards station P. If the distance between the stations P and
Q is 275 km and the trains meet in two and a half hours, then what is the speed of the train running
towards station P in km/h?
38. A car starts from point A towards point B, travelling at the speed of 20 km/h 1 1/2hours later, another
car starts from point A and travelling at the speed of 30 km/h and reaches 1 2/2 hours before the first car.
Find the distance between A and B.
39. Menu and Daya travel from point A to B, a distance of 105 km, at speeds of 10 km/h and 25 km/h,
respectively. Daya reaches point B first and returns immediately and meets Menu at point C. Find the
distance from point A to point C.
40. The distance between two stations A and B is 200 km. A train runs from A to B at a speed of 75 km/h,
while another train runs from B to A at a speed of 85 km/h. What will be the distance between the two
trains (in km) 3 minutes before they meet?
41. A car and a bus were travelling in the same direction. At 7:30 am. the car travelling at a speed of 72
km/h was 4.2 km behind the bus. At 8:15 a.m. the car was 15.8 km ahead of the bus. What is the ratio of
the speed of the car to the speed of the bus?
42. The distance between two places A and B is 140 km. Two cars x and y start simultaneously from A and
B, respectively. If they move in the same direction, they meet after 7 hours. If they move towards each
other, they meet after one hour. What is the speed (in km/h) of car y if its speed is more than that of car
x?
43. A person leaves city J at 7 am and reaches city K at 5 pm. Another person leaves from city K at 4 pm
and reaches city J at 10 pm. At what time (approximately) they both will meet?
44. Anil and Tirath drove between two points A and B 192 km apart. Anil started the journey from point A
at 8:20 a.m.; drove at a speed of 64 km/ h; reached point B and Immediately returned to A at the same
speed. Tirath started the journey from point A at 9:50 a.m.; drove at a speed of 96 km/h; reached point B
and immediately returned to A at the same speed. At what time did Anil and Tirath first meet each
other?
45. A dog chases rabbit. The rabbit is 125 leaps ahead of itself jumps from dog. The rabbit can jump 4 times
in a time in which the dog can jump 3 times. The distances covered by the rabbit and the dog in one
jump are 1.75 and 2.75 m respectively. In how many jumps the dog will catch the rabbit ?
46. Two boys begin together to write out a booklet containing 819 lines. The 1st boy starts with the first line
writing at the rate of 200 lines an hour and the 2nd boy starts with the last line then writes line 818 and
so on. Backward proceeding at the rate of 150 lines an hour. At the end of which line they meet.
47. A man travels 400 kms in 4 hours partly by air and partly by train if he had travelled all the way by air
he would have saved 4 5 of the time he was in the train and would have arrived his destination 2 hrs
early. Find the distance he travelled by train.
48. Buses start from a bus terminal with a speed of 20 km/hr at intervals 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 intervals of 8
minutes?
49. Two guns are fired at 13 minutes interval. But the passenger in the train hears the sound of second gun
after 12 minute 30 seconds of the first. If the speed of sound is 330 m/s then the speed of train was
50. A bus starts running with the initial speed of 6 km/hr and its speed increases every hour by certain
amount. If it takes 14 hours to cover a distance of 630 km, then what will be hourly increment in the
speed of bus?
51. Anand covers a certain distance in the first lag of 5 hours at the speed of 50 km/h. In the second lag, he
increased the speed by 20% due to which he covered 20% extra distance than that of the first lag. He
covered the third lag at the average speed of the first two lags and covered 10% extra distance than that
of the second lag distance. How much total time (in hours) did he take to complete all three lags?
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