Time, Speed and Distance Questions & Answers

Q11 A cyclist travels a certain distance in 6 hours at a uniform speed. In return, he increases his speed by 2 kmph and covers the same distance in 5 hours. What was his speed initially.

Q12 A man walks at the speed of 5 kmph and runs at the speed of 10 kmph. How much time will the man require to cover the distance of 28 km, if he covers half (first 14 km) his journey walking and half his journey running?

Q13 Two trains start at the same time from A & B and proceed towards B & A at 36 kmph & 42 kmph respectively. When they meet, it is found that one train has moved 48 km more than the other. What is the distance between A and B ?

Q14 Ram and Shyam travel the same distance at the speeds of 10 kmph and 15 kmph respectively. If Ram takes 30 min longer than Shyam, then the distance travelled is

Q15 Excluding the stoppages, the speed of a bus is 64 kmph and including the stoppages, the speed of the bus is 48 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour?

Q16 A train running at 7/11 of its own speed reached a place in 22 hrs. how much time can be saved if train would run at its own speed ?

Q17 There are 20 windmills with a constant distance between each pole. A car takes 22 seconds to reach the 12th pole. How much time will it take to reach the last pole?

Q18 A man covered a certain distance at some speed. Had he moved 3 kmph faster, he would have taken 40 minutes less. If he had moved 2 kmph slower, he would have taken 40 minutes more. The distance (in km) is:

Q19 Each day a man meets his wife at the train station after work, and then she drives him home. She always arrives exactly on time to pick him up. One day he catches an earlier train and arrives at the station an hour early. He immediately begins walking home along the same route the wife drives. Eventually his wife sees him on her way to the station and drives him the rest of the way home. When they arrive home the man notices that they arrived 20 minutes earlier than usual. How much time did the man spend walking?

Q20 Two guns were fired from the same place at an interval of 10 minutes and 30 seconds, but a person in the train approaching the place hears the second shot 10 minutes after the first. The speed of the train (in km/hr), supposing that speed travels at 330 metres per second, is: