Cluster · Speed, Distance and Time Calculations

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Average Speed Distance Time Problems
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A train, starting from rest, attains a velocity of 90 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming that the acceleration is uniform, the distance travelled by the train during this time is:

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A bus moving on a straight road at a speed of 10 km/h increases its speed to 70 km/h in 2 minutes. Find its average acceleration.

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A person covers a certain distance by bullet train at 84 km/h and returns back to the starting point by bus at a speed of 66 km/h. Find the average speed of the person for the whole journey.

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A train covers a distance of 850 metres in 45 seconds. Travelling at the same speed, how many kilometres will the train cover in an hour?

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How much percentage should a racer increase speed to reduce the time by 20% to cover a fixed distance?

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A train runs at a speed of 90 km/h in the first 10 minutes and 60 km/h in next 25 minutes and 15 km/h in last 4 minutes. What is the average speed of the train?

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A train travels from Chandigarh to Faridabad at a speed of 86 km/hr and returns at a speed of 88 km/hr. If it takes 174 hours for total travel, then find the distance to Faridabad. (In Km)

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A train covers 60 km at a speed of 80 km/h, 100 km at a speed of 90 km/h, and another 140 km at a speed of 120 km/h. Find the average speed for the complete journey. (Round to the nearest integer.)

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In a race around a circular track, an athlete runs at 10 m/sec in the first round, at 20 m/sec in the second round, and at 30 m/sec in the third round. Find his average speed (in m/sec) for the race. (correct to 2 decimal places)

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Without stoppages a train travels a certain distance with an average speed of 75 km/h and with stoppages it covers the same distance with an average speed of 65 km/h. How many minutes per hour does the train stop?

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A train travels from Amritsar to Kangra at a speed of 96 km/hr and returns at a speed of 98 km/hr. If the total journey takes 194 hours, find the distance from Amritsar to Kangra. (in km)

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A train travels from Jhansi at a speed of 88 km/h and after reaching a station returns at a speed of 90 km/h. The entire journey takes 178 hours, so find the distance between Jhansi and that station.

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Ram traveled an equal distance with the speed of 40 km/hr, 45 km/h, and 60 km/hr. What is the average speed of Ram during the whole journey? Correct to two decimal places.

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Ramesh starts from a place J and reaches the place K in 28 hours. He travels 2/5 distance at the speed of 10 km/hr and the remaining distance at the speed of 20 km/hr. What is the distance between J and K?

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Vipin travels one-third of the distance of a journey at a speed of 30 km/h and the remaining distance at a speed of 40 km/h. If he took a total of 12 hours to complete the journey, what was the total distance (in km) of the journey?

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A person drives 110 miles at 55 miles per hour, he drives the next 120 miles at 60 miles per hour, and then he drives the next 60 miles in an hour. What is his average speed for the entire journey in miles per hour?

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A person travels from one place to another at 180 km/h and returns to the starting point by the same route at 240 km/h. If the total time taken is 6 hours, then find the distance between the two places.

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Rajinder drives his car at an average speed of 40 km per hour to cover half of his total distance and thereafter he increases his speed to 60 km per hour. He covers his journey in 7 hours. What is the average speed of Rajinder in this journey?

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A man walking at the speed of 5 km/h covers a certain distance in 3 hours 45 minutes. If he covers the same distance by a cycle in 2 hours 10 minutes, then the speed of the cycle in km/h is:

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A person travels from P to Q at a speed of 50 km/h and returns by increasing his speed by 60%. What is his average speed for both the trips?

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Samantha takes 3 hours to travel from place X to place Y at a speed of 75 miles per hour. She takes 2 hours to travel from place Y to Z with 30% increased speed. Find her average speed during the entire journey.

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A train travels for 2 hours at a speed of 6 m/sec. What is the distance covered by the train in the mentioned duration of time?

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Travelling a distance of 1000 km, a train slowed down due to repairs to the tracks. Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 75 km/h, and the time of travel increased by 3 hours. The original duration of the travel is:

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Prasad goes 96 kilometers on a bike at a speed of 16 km/h, 124 kilometers at 31 km/h in a car, and 105 kilometers at 7 km/h in a horsecart. Find his average speed for the entire distance travelled.

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As part of his journey, a person travels 120 km at 80 km/h, the next 100 km at 40 km/h, and comes back to the starting point at 75 km/h. The average speed of the person throughout the journey (approximately) is:

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A person covers 11 km with a speed of 7 km/h, 25 km with a speed of 10 km/h and 30 km with a speed of 20 km/h. What is the average speed of the person?

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Aman walks at 5 km/hr and reaches his school 28 minutes late. If he walks at 8 km/hr, then he reaches 35 minutes before the scheduled time. What is the distance from his school to his house?

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A bus covers the first 50 km of its journey in 40 minutes and covers the remaining 75 km in 40 minutes. What is the average speed (in km/h) of the bus?

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A car covers 20 km in the first quarter of an hour, 25 km in the second quarter of that hour and 15 km in the third quarter. The average speed of the car (in km/h) over the entire journey is:

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A person covers \(\frac{1}{4}\) of his journey at the speed of 25 km/h, \(\frac{1}{2}\) of the journey at 40 km/h and the remaining at the speed of 50 km/h. Find his average speed per hour for the whole journey (in km/h).

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A bike takes 3 hours to cover a distance of 162 km. What distance will it cover in 5 hours?

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Anand covers a distance of 20 km at the speed of 4 km/h and he covers remaining distance at the speed of 5 km/h in 5 hours. What is the average speed (in km/h) of Anand for the whole journey?

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Shatabdi Express train covers 700 km in 5 hours and another 1012 km in 11 hours, What is the average speed of the train (in metres/second)?

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Two-thirds of a certain distance was covered at the speed of 45 km/h, one-fourth at the speed of 60 km/h and the rest at the speed of 75 km/h. Find the average speed per hour for the whole journey. (correct to 2 decimal places)

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A bicyclist travels 20 miles in 2 h and 30 min and 10 miles in 1 h 15 min. Find the average speed in miles per hour.

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A motorcycle covered the first 60 km of its journey at an average speed of 40 km/h. The speed of the motorcycle for covering the rest of the journey, i.e. 90 km, was 45 km/h. During the whole journey, the overall average speed of the motorcycle was:

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A fast local of Mumbai takes 60 minutes less than a slow local for a journey of 200 km. If the speed of the fast local is 10 km/h more than that of the slow local, find the speed (in km/h) of the slow local train.

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A train can cover a certain distance in 3 hrs. If the track management is improved, an increase in the speed of the train by 10 km/h is possible, which can reduce the above journey time by 30 minutes. Find the initial speed of the train.

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A cyclist and a jogger cover a certain distance at a certain speed. If the jogger covers one-third of the distance covered by cyclist in double of the time as that taken by the cyclist, the ratio of the speed of the jogger to that of the cyclist is:

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R jogs at twice the speed of walking and runs at twice the speed of jogging. From his home to office, he covers half of the distance by walking and the rest by jogging. From his office to home, he covers half the distance jogging and the rest by running. What is his average speed (in km/h) in a complete round from his home to office and back home if the distance between his office and home is 10 km and he walks at the speed of 5 km/h?

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Vikas covered a certain distance by bike. If he covers 40% of the distance at 40 km/h, 50% of the distance at 25 km/h and the remaining 10% distance at 10 km/h. Find his average speed over the whole distance.

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Aman covers a distance of 15 km in 3 hours and a distance of 20 km in 2 hours. What is the average speed of Aman?

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A person walked from his house to a supermarket at the rate of 10 km/h and walked back at the rate of 5 km/h. For the whole journey, he took 1 hour 30 minutes. Find the distance from his house to the supermarket (in km).

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If a man travels at \({{1} \over x}km/h\) on a journey and returns at \({{1} \over x^2}km/h,\)  then  his average speed for the journey is :

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Which of the following is NOT a correct statement?

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R reaches office from home in 30 minutes and comes back in 20 minutes. The distance to his office from home is 12.5 km. What is his average speed (in km/h) from home to office and then back home?

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Rani goes to school from home at a certain speed and returns to home at the speed of 50 km/h. If the distance between her home and school is 20 km and the average speed of the whole journey is 37.5 km/h, then what is her speed from home to school?

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A train covers a distance of 540 km between two stations in 240 minutes. It travels at a speed of 90 km/h to another station in 5 hours. What is the average speed of the train (in km/h)?

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Ram covers 500 km in 20 hours in traffic; he covered some distance by bike at 30 km/h and the rest by car at 20 km/h. The distance covered by a bike (in km) is:

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Reeta goes to office from home at a speed of 40 km/h. If she return to home from office at a speed of 60 km/h, then what is her average speed?
 

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