Time and Distance Problems (MCQs)


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11. If a train 50 m long passes a platform 100 m 101 in 10 seconds, then speed of the train is?

(a) 10 km/hr

(b) 18 km/hr

(c) 36 km/hr

(c) 54 km/hr

12. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kn and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For 1 many minutes does the train stop per hour?

(a) 12

(b) 19

(c) 15

(d) 16

13. Two men starting from the same place walk at the rate of 4 kmph and 5.5 kmph respectively. What time will they take to be 5.25 km apart if they walk in the same direction? 

(a) 2 hrs

(b) 3 hrs

(c) 7/2 hrs

(d) 11/2 hrs

14. Two buses travel to a place at 45 kmph and 60 kmph respectively. If the second bus takes 11/2 hours less than the first for the journey, then length of the journey is-

(a) 900 km

(b) 945 km

(c) 950 km

(d) 990 km

15. Ratish starts jogging from point X to point Y. Half an hour later, his friend Sunil who jogs 1 mile (1.61 km) per hour slower than twice Ratish’s rate starts from the same point and follows the same path. If Sunil overtakes Ratish in 2 hours, how many miles will Sunil have covered? 

(a) 11/2

(b) 10/3

(c) 4

(d) 6

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11. (d)

12. (b)

13. (c)

14. (d)

15. (b)

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