Speed x Time = Distance

Conversion of Units:
𝑘𝑚 5 𝑚
× =
h𝑟 18 sec

𝑚 18 𝑘𝑚
× =
𝑠𝑒𝑐 5 h𝑟
Complete the table.
Speed in km/hr Speed in m/s

54 ??

?? 10

90 ??

?? 35
Simple Example:

Two cars leave simultaneously from points A & B

(100km apart) & they meet at a point 40 km from
A. What is Sa/Sb?
(a)2/5
(b)3/5
(c)2/3
(d)3/2
A is twice as fast as B and B is thrice as fast
as C. The journey covered by C in 1.5 hr will
be covered by A in:

(a) 10 min (b) 15 min

(c) 30 min (d) 1 hr

A man starts from a place P and reaches the place
Q in 7 hours. He travels 1/4th of the distance at 10
kmph and the remaining distance at 12 kmph.
Find the distance between P and Q.

(A)70 km (B) 72 km

(C) 80 km (D) 90 km
By covering a distance by 7/10th of his usual
speed, Ram gets late by 21 mins. What is his
usual time to cover the distance?
(a) 21 min
(b) 42 min
(c) 49 min
(d) 55 min
Walking at 3/4th of usual speed, a man is 1.5 hr
late. Find the usual time taken by him to cover
the distance
(a) 4 (b) 5
(c) 4.5 (d) 5.5
 Concept of
Average Speed
Average Speed
• Generic Formula

Average Speed = total distance/total time

Average speed =
Akshay travels at 20 kmph from home to office and
returns at 30 km/hr. What is the average speed of his
complete journey?

(a)25 kmph

(b)23 kmph

(c)24 kmph

(d)26 kmph
Man cover a certain distance by car during driving at
70km/hr and returns back to the starting point riding on a
scooter at the speed of 55 km/hr. Find his average speed
during the whole journey?
(a) 60
(b) 61.6
(c) 65
(d) 61.8
A person travels 400 km by train at 80 kmph, 800
km by ship at 40 kmph, 1200 km by plane at 400
kmph and 100 km by car at 50 kmph. Find average
speed of his entire journey (in kmph).

(a) 80.67 (b) 84.33 (c) 80 (d)

83.33
A man goes to office with 4 km/hr and comes back
with 3 km/hr. If he takes 7 hours in all, then what
is the distance from his home to office?
(a)24 km (b) 12 km
(c) 30 km (d) None of the above
A man covers certain distance between his house
and office on scooter. Having an speed of 30
km/hr he is late by 10 min. However with speed
of 40 km/hr he reaches his office 5 m earlier. Find
the distance between the house and the office?
(a) 60 km (b)50km
(c) 40 km (d) 30 km
A man walking with a speed of 5 km/hr reaching
his target 5 min late. If he walks at a speed of 6
km/hr he reaches on time. Find the distance of his
target from his house.
(a) 3 km (b) 2 km
(c) 4 km (d) 2.5 km
A boy goes to tuition by bicycle at a speed of 10
km/hr and becomes 15 min late. Next day he
increases his speed by 2 km/hr and becomes 5
min late. What is the distance from home to
tuition?

(a) 10 km (b) 15 km

(c) 20 km (d) 30 km
In a fight of 600km, an aircraft was slowed down due to
bad weather. Its average speed for the trip was reduced
by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30
minutes. Find the speed of a flight
(a) 400 km/hr
(b) 500 km/hr
(c) 600 km/hr
(d) 800 km/hr
 Concept of
Relative Speed
Trains
When a person passes another person/pole:

When a person passes train or vice versa:

When two trains cross/pass each other:

When a train passes a platform/bridge:

A thief steals a car at 1.30 pm and drives it off at
40 kmph. The theft is discovered at 2 pm. The
owner sets off in another car at 50 kmph. He will
overtake the thief at:

(a) 4 pm (b) 4:30 pm

(c) 5 pm (d) 6 pm
Two trains leaves Pune for Delhi at 8am and 9 am
with a speed of 60 km/hr and 75 km/hr
respectively. At what time the 2nd train will
overtake the 1st one.
Two trains leaves Pune for Delhi at 8am and 9 am
with a speed of 60 km/hr and 75 km/hr
respectively. How far from Pune will the two train
meet?
Two trains 147 km apart. They starts towards each
other at the same time and meet after 7 hours. If
one train is 5 km/hr is faster than the other, then
find the speed of both the trains.
Two trains A and B are 500 km apart. Train A starts
at 8 am towards B with a speed of 25 km/hr. Train
B starts at 10 am towards A at a speed of 20
Km/hr. At what time will they meet.
A train of length 50 m passes a platform of 100 m
long in 10 sec. Find speed of the train in kmph.

(a)10 (b) 15

(c) 54 (d) 100

Platform
How many seconds will a train of length 120 m
running at 36 kmph take to cross a bridge of 360 m
in length?

(a) 36 sec (b) 40 sec

(c) 48 sec (d) 46 sec

A train passes a man standing on a platform in 8
sec and also crosses the platform which is 264 m
long in 20 seconds. The length of the train in
meters is?
A train 150 m long is running at 68 kmph. In what
time it will pass a man who is running at 8 kmph in
the same direction as that of the train?

(a) 8 sec (b) 8.5 sec

(c) 9 sec (d) 9.5 sec

A train 200 m long crosses a man going in the
same direction at a speed of 6 km/hr, in 10 sec.
Find the speed of the train.
A boy running in fog at 4 km/hr can see till 400 m
in any direction. He saw a train coming from
behind and it disappeared in 3 min. Find the speed
of the train if the length of the train is 200 m.
Boats and Streams
 X= Speed of a boat
Y= Speed of water/stream/current
Sd= Downstream Speed
Su= Upstream Speed
Find the downstream time

X = 16 km/hr D=120 km
Y = 4 km/hr
Find the upstream time

X = 16 km/hr D=120 km
Y = 4 km/hr
 Speed of flowing water is also called as speed of
current/Stream

Speed of boat= { Downstream Speed + Upstream Speed }

in still water

Speed of the = { Downstream Speed - Upstream Speed }

Stream or Water
1) If speed of downstream is 18 km/hr and
upstream is 12 km/hr, then find the speed of boat
in still water and speed of current.
2) Downstream speed of a boat is 49 km/hr and
upstream speed of a boat is 21 km/hr. Find the
speed of a boat in still water
And speed of water.
(a) (35, 14) km/hr
(b) (36, 15) km/hr
(c) (35, 15) km/hr
(d) (34, 14) km/hr
3) A man can swim 3 km/hr in still water. If the
velocity of the stream be 2 km/hr, the time taken
by him to a place 10 km upstream and back is.
(a)10 hr
(b)15 hr
(c)12 hr
(d)8 hr
4) Speed of boat in still water is 9 km/hr and
speed of a stream is 5 km/hr. If total time taken by
a boat to go to a certain distance and come back
is 36 hrs. Find the distance.
(a)56 km
(b)106 km
(c)108 km
(d)112 km
5) The speed of the boat in still water is 15 km/hr
and speed of a stream is 5 km/hr. The boat takes 5
hours more to come back than to go. What will be
the length of the river?
(a)120 km
(b)100 km
(c)110 km
(d)105 km
6) Length of a river is 8 km. Speed of a boat in still
water is 6 km/hr. The boat takes 3 hrs for
upstream and downstream. Find the speed of
stream.
(a)4 km/hr
(b)5 km/hr
(c)2 km/hr
(d)3 km/hr
7) A person goes 72 km
upstream and downstream
in 10 hrs. Time taken to
cover 3 km downstream is
equal to time taken to
cover 2 km upstream. Find
the speed of boat in still
water and speed of current.
(a)15, 12
(b)12, 5
(c)15, 3
(d)10, 5
9) A man can row 30 km downstream and return in
a total of 8 hrs. If the speed of the boat in still
water is four times the speed of the current, then
the speed of the current is?
(a) 2 km/hr
(b) 2.5 km/hr
(c) 3 km/hr
(d) 4 km/hr
12) A man can row 4 km/hr in still water. If he
takes 2 times as long as to row a distance
upstream as to row the same distance
downstream, the speed of the stream is ?
(a) 3 km/hr
(b) 2.5 km/hr
(c) 2 km/hr
(d) 1.5 km/hr
11) A person can row 7 km/hr
in still water and he finds that
it takes him twice as long as to
row up as to row down the
river. The speed of the stream
is ?
(a) 4 km/hr
(b) 3 km/hr
(c) 2.5 km/hr
(d) 2 km/hr
13) In a fixed time, a boy swims double the
distance along the current that he swims against
the current. If the speed of the current is 3 km/hr,
the speed of the boy in still water is?
(a) 3 km/hr
(b) 9 km/hr
(c) 12 km/hr
(d) 20 km/hr
14) A boy goes 6 km an hour
in still water, it takes thrice as
much time in going the same
distance against the current
comparison to direction of the
current. The speed of the
current is?
(a) 3 km/hr
(b) 9 km/hr
(c) 12 km/hr
(d) 20 km/hr
Practice Questions
If given downstream velocity is 21 km/hr and
speed of the stream is 3 km/hr, then find the
upstream velocity?

a) 18 km/hr

b) 24 km/hr.

c) 16 km/hr

d) 15 km/hr
A train of length 180m crosses a pole in 36 sec.
find its speed in Km/hr.

a) 24 km/hr

b) 16 km/hr

c) 20 km/hr

d) 18 km/hr
In 4 hours a swimmer can swim 28 km
downstream and 16 km against the stream in
the same time. Find the speed of the steam?

a) 1 km/hr

b) 0.5 km/hr

c) 1.5 km/hr

d) 2 km/hr
Two places P and Q are 276 km apart. A train
leaves P for Q and simultaneously another train
leaves Q for P. They meet at the end of 12
hours. if the former train travels 3 km/hr faster
than the other, then the speed of train Q is:

a) 13 km/hr

b) 12 km/hr

c) 11 km/hr

d) 10 km/hr
A man goes to office with 8 km/hr and comes
back 12 km/hr. He takes half an hour in all. Find
the distance from home to office.

a) 2.4 km

b) 3 km

c) 2.5 km

d) 4 km
The speed of the three cars are in the ratio of
6:5:9. Find the time taken by above cars to
travel the same distance ? .

a) 9:5:6

b) 10:15:18

c) 15:18:10

d) 1/9 : 1/5 : 1/6

By walking 6/11th of his usual speed a man is
late by 35 mins. Find his usual time to cover the
same distance ?

a) 55 min

b) 42 min

c) 44 min

d) 45 min
With a uniform speed a car covers a distance in
28 hours. Had the speed been increased by 8
km/hr the same distance could have been
covered in 20 hours. What is the distance

covered.

a) 240 km

b) 480 km

c) 400 km

d) 560 km
A boy walking at a speed of 15 km/hr reaches
his school 20 mins late. Next day he increases
his speed by 5 km/hr his school 4 mins early.
Find the distance from home to school.

a) 42 km

b) 24 km

c) 30 km

d) 36 km
If two trains start from Pune to Delhi at 8 am
and 10:30 am respectively, and travel at a
speed of 150 km/hr and 180 km/hr
respectively. How many kilometers away from

Pune will the two train meet.

a) 2150 km

b) 2350 km

c) 2250 km

d) 2500 km
8) The speed of the
current is 5 km/hr. A
motorboat goes 10 km
upstream and back
again to starting point
in 50 min. The speed (in
kmph) of the motorboat
in still water is?
(a) 20 km/hr
(b) 25 km/hr
(c) 28 km/hr
(d) 30 km/hr
A boy plants a bomb and runs at a speed of
30m/sec. The bomb blasts after 56 sec. After how
much time the boy will hear the sound of the blast
if the speed of the sound is 450 m/sec?
When two trains running in the same direction @
90 km/hr and 70 km/hr resp. Then the fastest train
passes a man sitting in slower train in 36 sec. Find
the length of faster train.
(a) 70 m
(b) 600 m
(c) 120 m
(d) 200 m
A man in the train notices that he count 21
telephone posts in 1 min. If they are known to be
50 m apart, then what is the speed of the train?
(a) 57 km/hr
(b) 60 km/hr
(c) 63 km/hr
(d) 55 km/hr
Two persons are walking in the same direction at
the rate of 3 km/hr and 6 km/hr. A train running
from behind passes them in 9 sec. & 10 sec. resp.
The speed of the train is:
(a)22 km/hr
(b)40 km/hr
(c)33 km/hr
(d)35 km/hr
A train overtook two people who are walking in
the same direction in which the train is going, at
the rate of 2 km/hr & 4 km/hr and passes
completely in 9 sec. & 10 sec. resp. The length of
the train is:
(a) 72 m
(b) 54 m
(c) 50 m
Two trains 130m & 110m long cross each other in 1 min
going in same direction. While going in opposite
direction they cross each other completely in 3 sec. The
speed of the train is:
(a) 42 m/s, 38 m/s
(b) 38 m/s, 24 m/s
(c) 42 m/s, 24 m/s
(d) None of the above
Two trains, A and B start from the station X and Y
towards each other, they take 4 hrs and 9 hrs to reach Y
and X respectively after they meet. If train A is moving
at a speed of 48 km/hr, then the speed of train B is?