Problems on train
Prerequisite knowledge:
STD
Relative Speed
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Q1. A train running at the speed of 60 km/hr crosses a pole in 18 seconds. What
is the length of the train?
200 meter
250 meter
300 meter
400 meter
Q2. The time taken by a train 110-m-long , running at a speed of 36 km/hr to cross a 132-m
long bridge, is?
10 second
20 second
24.2second
NOT
Q3. A train 250-m-long is moving at a speed of 54km/hr. the time taken by the train to cross a
200-m-long platform is (in sec)
10 second
20 second
30 second
NOT
Q4.A train takes 30 sec to cross a platform of length 300m at a speed of 30 m/sec. what is the
length of the train?
400m
500m
450m
600m
Q5. A train 240 m long passes a pole in 24 seconds. How long will it take to pass a platform 650
m long?
54second
42second
48second
1minute 29second
Q6. A train passes a station platform in 36 seconds and a man standing on the platform in 20
seconds. If the speed of the train is 54 km/hr, what is the length of the platform?
240m
250m
300m
NOT
Q7. A train speeds past a pole in 15 seconds and a platform 100 m long in 25 seconds. Its
length is?
150m
250m
200m
240m
Q8. A train moves past a telegraph post and a bridge 264 m long in 8 seconds and 20 seconds
respectively. What is the speed of the train?
11m/s
22m/s
24m/s
NOT
Q9. A 480 m long train was travelling at 72 km/hr. It took 32 seconds to cross a cyclist travelling
in the same direction as the train. Find the speed of the cyclist.
10 km/hr
15 km/hr
18 km/hr
20 km/hr
Q10. A 150-m-long train passes a man who is walking at a speed of 5 km/hr in opposite
direction in 10 sec. find the speed of train?
45 km/hr
54 km/hr
49 km/hr
NOT
Q11. A jogger running at 9 kmph alongside a railway track in 240 metres ahead of the engine of
a 120 metres long train running at 45 kmph in the same direction. In how much time will the
train pass the jogger?
8second
12second
24second
36second
Q12. Two trains are running at 40 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively in the same direction. Fast
train completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in 45 seconds. What is the length of
the slower train is?
250m
300m
450m
CND
Q13. Two goods train each 500 m long, are running in opposite directions on parallel tracks.
Their speeds are 45 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time taken by the slower train
to pass the driver of the faster one is -
24second
12second
48second
30second
Q14. A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction in which the train is
going, at the rate of 2 kmph and 4 kmph and passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds
respectively. The length of the train is-
50m
100m
150m
125m
Q15. Two trains of equal length are running on parallel lines in the same direction at 46 km/hr
and 36 km/hr. The faster train passes the slower train in 36 seconds. The length of each train is
50m
100m
150m
125m
Q16. Two trains are moving in opposite directions @ 60 km/hr and 90 km/hr. Their lengths are
1.10 km and 0.9 km respectively. The time taken by the slower train to cross the faster train in
seconds is-
48second
54second
45second
NOT
Q17. A 270 metres long train running at the speed of 120 kmph crosses another train running
in opposite direction at the speed of 80 kmph in 9 seconds. What is the length of the other
train?
230m
240m
250m
145m
Q18. A train 108 m long moving at a speed of 50 km/hr crosses another train 112 m long
coming from opposite direction in 6 seconds. The speed of the second train is?
100 km/hr
120 km/hr
130 km/hr
125 km/hr
Q19. A train, 180m long, crossed a 120 m long platform in 20 seconds, and another train
travelling at the same speed crossed an electric pole in 10 seconds. In how much time will they
cross each other when they are travelling in the opposite directions?
10Second
11Second
15Second
NOT
Q20. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the
platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in
23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds is-
3:2
3:3
1:3
1:2
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