CLASS: VI

CHAPTER: Motion & measurement of distance

1. Express ‘5 kilometres and 450 metres’ in centimetres.

Solution:
5 km = 5000m
5 km and 450m = 5000m + 450m = 5450m
Also, 1 m = 100 cm
So, 5450m = 545000cm.

2. While measuring a pencil with a scale, one end is at 2.5 cm and the other end at
9.2 cm. What is the length of the pencil in millimetres?

Solution:

Length of pencil = reading of second end – reading of first end

= 9.2 cm – 2.5 cm
= 6.7 cm
But 1 cm = 10 mm
So, 6.7cm = 67mm.

3. A eraser is one fifth the length of a pencil. A pencil is twice the length of a
compass. If the length of the compass is 7.5cm, what is the length of the eraser?
Solution:

Length of pencil = 2 X length of compass

= 2 X 7.5cm
=15cm
Now, length of eraser = length of pencil / 5
= 15cm / 5
= 3 cm.

4. A string of length 30 cm has two knots that divides it in three equal parts. A stick
is one knot longer than three times the string. What is the length of the stick?

Solution:

Length of one knot = 30cm / 3 = 10 cm

 3 times the string will be = 3X30 = 90 cm
So, total length of stick = 10cm + 90cm
= 100cm
= 1m

5. Railway track is to be laid between Delhi and Mumbai. The distance between
Delhi and Mumbai is 1400 km. If the length of one beam of the track is 70m, what
is the number of beams needed for the track?

Solution:

Distance = 1400km = 1400 X 1000 m

= 1400000 m
Length of beam X no. Of beams = distance
So, no of beams = distance/ length of beam
= 1400000/70
= 20000

6. A boy runs 5 km in two hour, while a girl travels 4 km in two hour. Who runs
faster?

Solution: To determine who travels faster, we compare the distance

travelled by each of them in same duration of time.
In two hours, boy runs 5 km, which is more that the distance girl
runs in two hours (4 km). So, boy runs faster.

7. How is the motion of legs while running different from the motion of wheels of a
car?

Ans: While running, the legs are in rectilinear motion, while the wheels of a car are
in both rectilinear and circular motion.
Secondly, while running, only one leg is in motion at a time, while all four
wheels are in motion in a moving car.

8. If a body is in both circular motion and periodic motion, does it travel equal
distances in equal time durations?
Solution: The body is in periodic motion, so it must be at the same position after
given time durations. But it is moving around a circular path. So, it must travel the
distance equal to the length of the circle in equal time durations.

9. If a stone is 5m away from a nail on the wall at 4:30pm.It is again at a distance

of 5m from the nail at 4:40pm and 4:50pm. Which of the three – rectilinear,
circular and periodic motion can the stone have?

Solution: If the path is circular, the stone is in circular motion. It is in periodic

motion because it is at same position again and again after a duration of 10 mins.
Note that the body may be at rest, and have no motion at all.

10. Name the objects that move when the sound of a drum reaches our ears

Ans: There is periodic motion in the skin of the drum. This periodic motion may
cause motion in the air between the drum and the ear. The sound is carried by this
moving air.

11. How does the centre of a rolling ball move when there is both circular motion
and rectilinear motion in it?

Ans: As the distance of centre of the ball from the ground remains fixed, it is
moving in a straight line. Thus, it must be having a rectilinear motion.

12. A cricket bat is 11 times longer than the scale in your geometry box. If the
length of the scale is 15 cm, what is the length of the cricket bat?

Solution:

Length of bat = 11 X 15 cm = 165 cm

= 1.65 m
13. A girl measures the desk with her mutthi, and finds that the desk is 25 mutthi
long. A boy measures it using a 16 cm long scale, and finds it 10 times the length
of the scale. Then what is the length of girl’s mutthi ?

Solution:

Length of the desk, as measured by boy = 16 cm X 10 = 160 cm

So, length of the desk measured by girl will be same,
160 cm = 20 X length of girl’s Mutthi
Hence, length of Mutthi = 160 cm / 20 = 8 cm.

14. A maths book has 200 pages, and the thickness of each page is 0.1mm. What
is the thickness of the book? Solution:

Thickness of book = no. Of pages X thickness of each page

= 200 X 0.1 mm
= 20 mm
= 2 cm

15. Convert 1centimeter into kilometre.

Solution:

We have, 1 km = 1000 m
1 m = 100 cm
So, 1km = 100000 cm
Hence, 1 cm = 1 km / 100000
= 0.00001 km.