Quiz Discussion

A girl while walking diametrically across a semicircular playground, takes 3 minutes less than if she had kept walking round the circular path from A to B. If she walks 60 metres a minute, what is diameter of the play ground?

• 1] 60 m
• 2] 48 m
• 3] 84 m
• 4] 315 m
• 5] None of these

Karan and Arjun run a 100 metre race, where Karan beats Arjun by 10 metre. To do a favour to Arjun, Karan starts 10 metre behind the starting line in a second 100 race. They both run at their earlier speeds. Which of the following is true in connection with the race?

• 1] Karan and Arjun reach the finishing line simultaneously
• 2] Arjun beats Karan by 1 metre
• 3] Arjun beats Karan by 11 metre
• 4] Karan beats Arjun by 1 metre
• 5] Cannot be said

Two trains start from a certain place on two parallel tracks in the same direction. The speed of the trains are 45 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively. The distance between the two trains after 45 minutes will be :

• 1] 2.500 km
• 2] 2.750 km
• 3] 3.750 km
• 4] 3.25 km

A car driver, driving in a fog, passes a pedestrian who was walking at the rate of 2 km/h in the same direction. The pedestrian could see the car for 6 minutes and it was visible to him up to distance of 0.6 km. what was speed of the car?

• 1] 30 kmph
• 2] 15 kmph
• 3] 20 kmph
• 4] 8 kmph
• 5] 12 kmph

A candle of 6 cm long burns at the rate of 5 cm in 5 hour and an another candle 8 cm long burns at the rate of 6 cm in 4h. What is the time required to each candle to remain of equal lengths after burning for some hours, when they starts to burn simultaneously with uniform rate of burning?

• 1] 1 hours
• 2] 1.5 hours
• 3] 2 hours
• 4] 3 hours
• 5] 4 hours

A car goes 20 metres in a second. Find its speed in km/hr.

• 1] 20 km/hr
• 2] 18 km/hr
• 3] 72 km/hr
• 4] 36 km/hr

A man covers a total distance of 100 km on bicycle. For the first 2 hours, the speed was 20 km/hr and for the rest of the journey, it came down to 10 km/hr. The average speed will be :

• 1]

  \(12\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

• 2]

  13 km/hr

• 3]

  \(\frac{1}{8}\) km/hr

• 4]

  20 km/hr

A car after traveling 18 km from a point A developed some problem in the engine and the speed became \(\frac{4}{5}\) th of its original speed. As a result, the car reached point B 45 minutes late. If the engine had developed the same problem after traveling 30 km from A, then it would have reached 36 minutes late. The original speed of the car (in km/h) is:

• 1] 25 kmph
• 2] 30 kmph
• 3] 20 kmph
• 4] 35 kmph
• 5] None of these

If A travels to his school from his house at the speed of 3 km/h, then he reaches the school 5 minutes late. If he travels at the speed of 4 km/h, he reaches the school 5 minutes earlier than school time. The distance of his school from his house is:

• 1] 1 km
• 2] 2 km
• 3] 3 km
• 4] 4 km

A man goes to a place on bicycle at speed of 16 km/hr and comes back at lower speed. If the average speed is 6.4 km/hr in total, then the return speed (in km/hr) is :

• 1] 10 km/hr
• 2] 8 km/hr
• 3] 6 km/hr
• 4] 4 km/hr