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1(a) How long would it take you to travel 3 kilometres, if you walked at 6 km/h
Give your answer in minutes.
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Answer minutes
1(b) What is Laura’s average speed if she travels 126 miles in 2 hours?
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Answer mph
1(c) Emma travels at a speed of 23 miles per hour for 3.5 hours.
How far has she travelled?
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Answer miles
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2(a) A car journey of 214 miles took Jack a total 7 hours and 15 minutes to complete.
Calculate his average speed across the journey to 2 decimal places.
You must state the units.
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2(b) Jack completed the return journey in half the time.
What was his average speed on the return journey?
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3(a) Nabeel travelled to London by train, her journey was made up of two parts.
One train into York and then another train into London.
The first train departed at 07:05 and the journey lasted for 12 minutes.
The second train departed at 07:27 and the journey lasted for 122 minutes.
The total distance travelled was 197 miles.
What was Nabeela’s average speed for the entire journey?
[2 marks]
Answer mph
3(b) York to London is a distance of 175 miles.
How many miles an hour faster was the first part of the journey?
[3 marks]
Answer mph
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4 Trihao is driving from Cambridge to London.
Assume the distance between Cambridge and London is 100 km.
4(a) Given that Trihao drives at an average speed of 80 km/h, work out his journey time.
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4(b) Chris instead decides to take the train.
He leaves Cambridge at the same time as Trihao, but arrives in London
20 minutes before Trihao arrives.
Calculate the average speed of the train.
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5(a) Jordan finishes college at 16:30 h.
He walks to the his mum’s work 0.24 km away, at a speed of 2 km/h.
He waits there 7 minutes for his mum to finish work before she drives them both
7 km back home at an average speed of 26 km/h.
What time does Jordan arrive home?
Give your answer to the nearest minute.
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If Jordan jogs the 7.1 km directly home at a speed of 7.4 km/h, at what time would he
5(b)
arrive home?
Give your answer to the nearest minute.
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6 Anna needs to be at the museum for the open evening at 18.00 h.
She will walk to the museum from the bus depot at a speed of 3 mph.
To arrive at the bus depot she will catch the bus at the stop from near her house. The
bus travels at an average speed of 25 mph.
On the walk from her house to the bus stop she will average a speed of 6 mph.
The bus depot is 0.7 miles from the museum.
The bus journey from bus stop to bus depot is 2.2 miles.
The walk from her house to the bus stop is 0.3 miles.
Buses leave the bus stop at 15 minute intervals starting from 07:00 h.
Walk Bus Walk
What is the latest bus Anna can catch and still arrive at the museum on time?
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7(a) Mrs Smith travels on Plane M, which flies at an average speed of 825 km/h for
7 hours and 24 minutes from Location A to Location B.
She then waits at Location B for 2 hours and 11 minutes, before flying to Location C on
Plane N, which flies at an average speed of 722 km/h for 4 hours and 48 minutes.
Both planes fly in a straight line to their respective destinations.
What is the total distance of her journey?
[2 marks]
Answer km
7(b) The journey from Location A to Location B to Location C is such that it forms a right
angle at Location B.
Plane Z flies directly from Location A to Location C at a speed of 795 km/h
If Plane Z leaves Location A at 11.53 h, what time does it arrive at Location C?
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