Quiz Discussion

A man covers the journey from station A to station B at a uniform speed of 36 kmph and returns to A with a uniform speed of 45 kmph, his average speed for the whole journey is:

• 1] 40 kmph
• 2] 40.5 kmph
• 3] 41 kmph
• 4] 42 kmph

A ship, 40 kilometers from the shore, springs a leak which admits \(3\frac{3}{4}\) tonnes of water in 12 minutes. 60 tonnes would suffice to sink her, but the ship's pumps can throw out 12 tonnes of water in one hour. Find the average rate of sailing, so that she may reach the shore just as she begging to sink?

• 1]

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

• 2]

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

• 3]

  \(3\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

• 4]

  \(4\frac{1}{2}\) km/hr

Vinay and Versha run a race with their speed in the ratio of 5 : 3. They prefer to run on a circular track of circumference 1.5 km. What is the distance covered by Vinay when he passes Versha for the seventh time?

• 1] 25.25 km
• 2] 26.25 km
• 3] 13.2 km
• 4] 14.5 km

If a man runs at 6 kmph from his house, he misses the train at the station by 8 min. If he runs at 10 kmph, he reaches 7 min before the departure of the train. What is the distance of the station from his house? (in Km).

• 1]

  \(4\frac{3}{4}\) km

• 2]

  \(3\frac{1}{2}\) km

• 3]

  \(4\frac{1}{4}\) km

• 4]

  \(3\frac{3}{4}\) km

• 5]

  \(4\frac{1}{2}\) km

In a 100m race, Kamal defeats Bimal by 5 seconds. If the speed of Kamal is 18 kmph, then the speed of Bimal is:

• 1] 15.4 kmph
• 2] 14.5 kmph
• 3] 14.4 kmph
• 4] 14 kmph

An athlete claimed that his timing for a 100 m dash should be corrected because the starting signal was gives by a gun fired from a point 10 m away from him and the timekeeper was standing close to the gun. The error due to this could be (in seconds) :

• 1] 0.03 sec
• 2] 0.1 sec
• 3] 0.5 sec
• 4] 0.7 sec

A man covers half of his journey at 6 km/h and the remaining half at 3 km/h. His average speed is

• 1] 9 km/h
• 2] 4.5 km/h
• 3] 4 km/h
• 4] 3 km/h

A thief sees a jeep at a distance of 250 m, coming towards him at 36 km/h. Thief takes 5 seconds to realize that there is nothing but the police is approaching him by the jeep and start running away from police at 54 km/h. But police realise after 10 second, when the thief starts running away, that he is actually a thief and gives chase at 72 km/h. How long after thief saw police did catchup with him and what is the distance police had travel to do so?

• 1] 50 s, 1000 m
• 2] 65 s, 1150 m
• 3] 65 s, 1300 m
• 4] 45 s, 1050 m
• 5] None of these

Robert is travelling on his cycle and has calculated to reach point A at 2 P.M. if he travels at 10 kmph, he will reach there at 12 noon if he travels at 15 kmph. At what speed must he travel to reach A at 1 P.M.?

• 1] 8 kmph
• 2] 11 kmph
• 3] 12 kmph
• 4] 14 kmph

A train covers a distance between two stations A and B in 45 minutes. If the speed of the train is reduced by 5 km/hr, then it covers the distance in 48 minutes. The distance between the stations A and B is :

• 1] 55 km
• 2] 60 km
• 3] 64 km
• 4] 80 km