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Math 6A Lesson 5 Speed

Fill in the blanks with the correct answer

Average Speed = Distance -=- Time

Time = Distance -=- Speed
Distance = Speed x Time

1. (a) Ron ran 450 m round a track in 3 minutes. Speed= m/min

What was his average running speed?

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(b) A bullet train traveled 110 km in 20 Speed= km/min

minutes. At what average speed was the
train moving?

(c) Mr. Timely drove 38 km to his office in Speed= km/h

2 hour. What was his average driving

speed?
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2. (a) If I walk 660 m to school at an average Time = mm

speed of 55m/min, how long will I take to
reach school?

(b) Miss Light takes the bus to work. Her Time = h

office is 52 km away from her home. If the
bus moves at an average speed of78 km/h,
how long will her trip take?

( c) If a worm crawls at an average speed of Time = h

16 m/h, how long will it take to crawl
1 km?

3. (a) Mr. Hobo drove 4 hours to another city at Distance = km

an average speed of74.5 km/h. How far
did he drive?

(b) A cyclist completed a competition in Distance = km

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l 4 hours at an average speed of 48 km/h.
How far did he cycle?

( c) If Jo can skate at an average speed of Distance = m

240 m/min, how far can she skate in
10 seconds?
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4. For each of the following, fill in the blank with the correct answer in the given unit.

(a) A driver took 40 min to complete his journey at an average speed of

72 km/h. If he had driven at 8 km/h faster, he could have completed the
same distance ----- min earlier.

(b) Leo takes 15 mins to cycle to school at an average speed of 12 km/h. He

will need only ____ h if he cycles at 18 km/h.

( c) Peter and Paul are heading towards the same destination 25 km away. Peter
walks at 5 km/h while Paul cycles 4 times as fast. If both start off from the
same place at the same time, Paul will arrive ____ h earlier than Peter.

(d ) Kelly and Sally both set off at 8:30 am for Town P, 180 km away. Sally
arrived at 11:30 am, ahead of Kelly. If Kelly traveled at a speed which was
10 km/h slower than Sally, then Kelly would have arrived in Town P
at _____ pm.

(e) Mr. Quick took 7 h to travel 504 km from Ace City to Zee City. At that
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speed, he was still _____ km away from Zee City 5 h after he
started his journey.
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(f) After Tom had walked for 1
3 h at 3 km/h and cycled for another 45 min at
18 km/h, he would have covered a total distance of _____ km.

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(g ) Adam drove at 86 km/h for the first 1
2 h of his journey and completed the
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rest of it at 60 km/h. If he drove for a total of 3 2 h, he would have covered
a total distance of _____ km.
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(h ) If I want to leave my house at 7:30 am and arrive at the office, which

is 48 km away, at 8:10 am. I will need to travel at an average speed of
____ lan/h.

(i) Mrs. Healthy walked along a running track at 2400 m/h. She took 4
min more than Mrs. Wise to walk the entire length of the track once.
If the track is 800 m long, Mrs. Wise's average walking speed was
---- m/min.

Guided Example:
(a) Dave traveled for 5 hours at an average speed of 54 lan/h. His speed for the first
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5 of the journey was 81 lan/h. Find his speed for the rest of the journey.
Suggested solution:

Total distance ¾ _. ( LJ h x _J __
j lanlh ) = LJ km
3
5 of the distance
_
. --�J
(j� + 5 x 3) = LJ km
_. Time taken ( .-1 ---,I km + 81 lan/h)

5 of the distance -.
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(b) Up Town and Down Town are 420 km apart. Mr. A left Up Town for Down
Town at an average speed of 75 km/h. At the same time, Mr. Z left Down Town
for Up Town at an average speed of 93 km/h along the same road. How far
would Mr. A have traveled when he passed Mr. Z along the way?

Suggested solution:

l+D) = I
Total distance covered
by both men in 1 hour
-cl km

/
(420km-;- D km)= I
Time taken before they
passed each other
Ih
Distance covered by .----------.-------,
Mr.A
�---,I h
I I 7 km/h =
x 5
km

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1. A van driver making deliveries on a certain day completed the first
3 of his
journey at 40 mi/h in 4 hours. The average speed for his total journey that day
was 50 mi/h. How many hours and minutes did he take to cover the rest of the
day's journey to complete his deliveries? (Time taken for delivery stops
excluded.)

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2. Bob started driving at 72 km/h for the first
9 of his trip. He later increased his
speed by 3 km/h during the last 60km of his trip. How many hours did his whole
trip take (assuming he did not stop along the way)?
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3. A truck covered the distance between 2 towns at an average speed of 50 mi/h. It

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moved at 65 mi/h for the first 5 of the distance before the truck driver stopped
for a 1 -hour break. After that, he continued driving for another 195 miles till he
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arrived at his destination. At what speed was the truck moving during the last
195 miles of the trip? Give your answer in mi/h.

4. Ted and Ben took part in the same race. When Ted won the race 25 minutes after
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it started, Ben had only run 8 of the distance. Ben's average speed was 75 m/min
slower than Ted's. What was Ted's average running speed in the race?

5. A car driver and a motorcyclist started from the same place and headed for the
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same destination 480 km away. The car driver set off 1 2 hours later than the

motorcyclist but arrived 1 2 hours earlier. If the average speed of the motorcycle
was 60 km/h, what was the average speed of the car?
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6. Mr. Strong started driving at 9:40 am, at an average speed of 60 km/h. Mr. Swift
started driving from the same place at 10: 10 am, using the same route. If Mr. Swift
took 3 hours to catch up with Mr. Strong, at what average speed was Mr. Swift
driving?

7. Ernie and Bert traveled along the same road from Small Town to Big Town.
Ernie left Small Town at 1 :30 pm and Bert left 30 minutes later. At 4:30 pm,
Ernie reached Big Town but Bert had another 11 km to cover. If Bert was
traveling at 82 km/h,
(a) how far was Big Town from Small Town,
(b) whose speed was slower? How much slower?

8. Lenny and Sunny started cycling at the same time along a bicycle track at an
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average speed of 12 km/h and 15 km/h respectively. After covering 5 of the 60-km
track, Sunny stopped to rest until Lenny caught up with him. For how many
minutes did Sunny stop to rest?
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9. Oscar started running from his house at 6:45 am in the direction of Grover's
house at an average speed of 9 km/h. At the same time, Grover ran from his
house in the direction of Oscar's house at an average speed of 7 km/h. They were
8 km apart at 7: 15 am. What was the distance between their houses?

10. Place A and Place B were 64 km apart. A bus left Place A for Place B at an
average speed of 84 km/h. At the same time, a car left Place B for Place A. The 2
vehicles passed each other 20 minutes after they started. What was the average
speed of the car?

11. The distance between the park and the museum is 92 km. Nina left the park at
11:50 am for the museum. At the same time, Rita left the museum for the park.
They passed each other at 1:50 pm. If Rita's average speed was 5km/h faster
than Nina's, what was Rita's average speed?
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12. Mindy started jogging at the same time as Mork started walking. They started
from the same spot, but they went opposite ways. 3 hours after they bad started,
they were 54 km apart. If Mindy jogged 1.2 km/h faster than the average speed at
which Mork walked, what was Mork's average walking speed?

13. Near City is 635 km away from Far City. Mr. Louis set off from Near City at
8:20 am for Far City, driving at an average speed of 70 km/h. Mr. Gordon left
Far City for Near City 30 minutes later, traveling along the same road at an
average speed of 80 km/h. At what time did the 2 drivers pass each other?

14. After driving half the way from the city to the zoo, I passed a tour bus traveling
at an average speed of 78 km/h in the opposite direction from the zoo to the city.
When I reached the zoo 20 minutes after passing the bus, it was still 14 km from
the city. How far was the zoo from the city?
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15. Jerry drove from Bright Town to Happy Town at an average speed of 64 km/h.
Two hours after Jerry started driving, Harry started driving from Happy Town to
Bright Town at an average speed of 96 km/h. When Jerry reached Happy Town,
Harry was still 32 km away from Bright Town. What was the distance between
the 2 towns?

1. A vehicle is moving at an average speed of 84 km/h. This is equivalent to the

average speed of

(a) _____ m/h

�) ______ km/min

(c) ______ m/min

(d) _____ mis

2. (a) Steady Tortoise started crawling from Woody Woods to Fresh Forest at
7:30 am. 30 minutes later, Sprightly Rabbit left Woody Woods for Fresh
Forest and caught up with Steady Tortoise at 10 am. Sprightly Rabbit
reached Fresh Forest at 11am, before Steady Tortoise. What time would
Steady Tortoise reach the forest? Give the answer in "am" or "pm".

Answer: -------
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(b) Buck takes 6 hours to drive from Great City to Swing City. Roger takes
9 hours to cover the same distance in the opposite direction. If they both
start driving at 11:25 am, at what time will they pass each other? Give the
answer in "am" or "pm".

Answer: -------

3. Use the given to construct a line graph in the grid provided.

(a) Lance started cycling from his house at 6 am.
(b) His cycling speed for the first hour was 15 km/h.
(c) After cycling a total of 25 km for 2 hours, he stopped for a 30-minute
break.
(d) After the break, he cycled at an average speed of 10 km/h without stopping
until he reached home.

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