General Aptitude

Time and Distance

169 questions in this chapter, page 1 of 4.

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ABC26GN3569 · A train travels 82.6 km/hr. How many metres will it travel in 15 minutes? (E.S.I.C., 2006)  82.6 
ABC26GN3570 · How many minutes does Aditya take to cover a distance of 400 m, if he runs at a speed of 20 km/hr?  5  50
ABC26GN3597 · A man riding his bicycle covers 150 metres in 25 seconds. What is his speed in km per hour? · 2005
ABC26GN3571 · A cyclist covers a distance of 750 m in 2 min 30 sec. What is the speed in km / hr of the cyclist?  750   18 
ABC26GN3598 · A bus covers a distance of 2924 km in 43 hours. What is the speed of the bus? · 2008
ABC26GN3572 · A man walked at a speed of 4 km/hr from point A to B and came back from point B to A at the speed of 6 km/hr. What would be the ratio of…
ABC26GN3599 · A is travelling at 72 km per hour on a highway while B is travelling at a speed of 25 metres per second. What is the difference in their…
ABC26GN3573 · A dog takes 4 leaps for every 5 leaps of a hare but 3 leaps of a dog are equal to 4 leaps of the hare. Compare their speeds. · 2007
ABC26GN3600 · A motorist travelled between two towns, which are 65 km apart, in 2 hours and 10 minutes. Find the speed in metres per minute. · 2006
ABC26GN3601 · In track meets both 100 yards and 100 metres are used as distances. By how many metres is 100 metres longer than 100 yards?
ABC26GN3602 · Which of the following trains is the fastest?
ABC26GN3576 · Peter can cover a certain distance in 1 hr. 24 min. by covering two-third of the distance at 4 kmph and the rest at 5 kmph. Find the total…
ABC26GN3603 · A person crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes. What is his speed in km per hour?
ABC26GN3577 · One-third of a certain journey was covered at the speed of 20 km/hr, one-fourth at 30 km/hr and the rest at the speed of 50 km/hr. Find the… · 2009
ABC26GN3578 · A man travelled from the village to the post-office at the rate of 25 kmph and walked back at the rate of 4 kmph. If the whole journey took…
ABC26GN3579 · An aeroplane flies along the four sides of a square at the speeds of 100, 200, 300 and 400 km/hr. Find the average speed of the plane… · 2009
ABC26GN3604 · The mileage of a motorbike A and a motorbike B is 42 km per litre and 52 km per litre respectively. Motorbike A covered 294 km and…
ABC26GN3605 · A train leaves Delhi at 4.10 P.M. and reaches Aligarh at 7.25 P.M. The average speed of the train is 40 km/hr. What is the distance from… · 2006
ABC26GN3606 · A is 10 miles west of B. C is 30 miles north of B. D is 20 miles east of C. What is the distance from A to D ? · 2006
ABC26GN3607 · A plane flying north at 500 mph passes over a city at 12 noon. A plane flying east at the same altitude passes over the same city at 12…
ABC26GN3608 · A train travels at the speed of 65 km/hr and halts at 8 junctions for a certain time. It covers a distance of 1300 km in 1 day (24 hours)… · 2006
ABC26GN3609 · Jane travelled 4/7 as many miles on foot as by water and 2/5 as many miles on horseback as by water. If she covered a total of 3036 miles… · 2005
ABC26GN3610 · A star is 8.1 × 1013 km away from the earth. Suppose light travels at the speed of 3.0 × 105 km per second. How long will it take the light… · 2005
ABC26GN3589 · A man covers a certain distance on a toy train. Had the train moved 4 km/hr faster, it would have taken 30 minutes less. If it moved 2… · 2010
ABC26GN3611 · Akash leaves home for school which is 12 km from his house. After the school, he goes to his club which is 7 km from his school. If his…
ABC26GN3590 · A and B are two stations 390 km apart. A train starts from A at 10 a.m. and travels towards B at 65 kmph. Another train starts from B at 11… · 2007
ABC26GN3613 · Deepa rides her bike at an average speed of 30 km/hr and reaches her destination in 6 hours. Hema covers the same distance in 4 hours. If…
ABC26GN3614 · A monkey climbing up a pole ascends 6 metres and slips 3 metres in alternate minutes. If the pole is 60 metres high, how long will it take… · 2010
ABC26GN3593 · Two places A and B are 80 km apart from each other on a highway. A car starts from A and another from B at the same time. If they move in… · 2006
ABC26GN3615 · An aeroplane flies twice as fast as a train which covers 60 miles in 80 minutes. What distance will the aeroplane cover in 20 minutes? · 2006
ABC26GN3616 · A boy is running at a speed of p kmph to cover a distance of 1 km. But, due to the slippery ground, his speed is reduced by q kmph(p>q). If… · 2006
ABC26GN3595 · Sneha is picked up by her father by car from college everyday. The college gets over at 4 p.m. daily. One day, the college got over an hour…
ABC26GN3617 · Ravi can walk a certain distance in 40 days when he rests 9 hours a day. How long will he take to walk twice the distance, twice as fast… · 2010
ABC26GN3618 · A car is driven at the speed of 100 km/hr and stops for 10 minutes at the end of every 150 km. To cover a distance of 1000 km, it will take
ABC26GN3619 · A man takes 50 minutes to cover a certain distance at a speed of 6 km/hr. If he walks with a speed of 10 km/hr, he covers the same distance…
ABC26GN3620 · A truck covers a distance of 550 metres in 1 minute whereas a bus covers a distance of 33 kms in 45 minutes. The ratio of their speeds is
ABC26GN3621 · The ratio between the speeds of two trains is 7 : 8. If the second train runs 400 kms in 4 hours, then the speed of the first train is
ABC26GN3622 · A train travels at an average of 50 miles per hour for 2 1/2 hours and then travels at a speed of 70 miles per hour for 1 1/2 hours. How…
ABC26GN3624 · Sound is said to travel in air at about 1100 feet per second. A man hears the axe striking the tree, 11/5 seconds after he sees it strike… · 2002
ABC26GN3625 · An express train travelled at an average speed of 100 km/hr, stopping for 3 minutes after every 75 km. How long did it take to reach its… · 2003
ABC26GN3626 · A certain distance is covered by a cyclist at a certain speed. If a jogger covers half the distance in double the time, the ratio of the…
ABC26GN3628 · A bus moving at a speed of 24 m/s begins to slow at a rate of 3 m/s each second. How far does it go before stopping? · 2007
ABC26GN3629 · A boy goes three equal distances, each of length x km, with a speed of y km / hr, 3 y/5 km / hr and 2 y/5 km / hr respectively. If the…
ABC26GN3630 · A long distance runner runs 9 laps of a 400 metres track everyday. His timings (in min) for four consecutive days are 88, 96, 89 and 87… · 2008
ABC26GN3632 · A car starts running with the initial speed of 40 kmph, with its speed increasing every hour by 5 kmph. How many hours will it take to… · 2007
ABC26GN3634 · A bus started its journey from Ramgarh and reached Devgarh in 44 minutes at its average speed of 50 km/hr. If the average speed of the bus… · 2009
ABC26GN3635 · The speeds of three cars are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. The ratio of the times taken by these cars to travel the same distance is · 2005
ABC26GN3636 · The speeds of A and B are in the ratio 3 : 4. A takes 20 minutes more than B to reach a destination. In what time does A reach the… · 2007
ABC26GN3637 · The speed of electric train is 25% more than that of steam engine train. What is the time taken by an electric train to cover a distance… · 2004
ABC26GN3638 · A takes 2 hours more than B to walk d km, but if A doubles his speed, then he can make it in 1 hour less than B. How much time does B… · 2005