8th APRIL: (Speed Time Distance)

1) A person started a journey from Pune to Mumbai on expressway. But after

travelling for 1 hr the tyre busted. He changed the tyre and to be on a safer side,
travelled the remaining journey with a speed 3/5th of the original and reached the
destination 40 min late. Had the tyre busted 60 km further on, he would have
reached 10 min earlier. Find the distance from Pune to Mumbai if the time take to
change the tyre each time is 10 min.

2) Silky finishes of with her office everyday at a fixed time; 6 pm. Her driver starts
from her home at a fixed time so that, he reaches the office exactly at the same
time to pick her up. One day, office got over 40 minutes early. And in order to not to
waste on time, she started walking towards her house. She met the driver in
between and reached home 20 min earlier than the routine. Find the time for which
she was walking?

3) There are two persons Ram and Sham, swimming along the opposite ends of a
swimming pool, with constant speeds. Both of them started together and first time,
they met at a distance of 26 m from one of the ends, they continued to swim,
reached the respective ends and turned back and the next time they met at a
distance of 14 m from the other end. Find the length of the swimming pool.

4) There are two persons running along a circular track with constant speeds. Both
of them started at the same time from the same starting point but in the opposite
directions. First time they met at a distance of 350 m from one of the ends.
They continued to run and next time they met at a distance of 250 m from the
starting point but in the opposite direction. Find the length of the circular track.

5) The arch rivals Hare and Tortoise decided to run a race on a circular track. Both
of them start form the same starting point, but in the opposite directions. The over
confident hare does not start till the tortoise has covered 1/6th of the distance. The
two of them meet when, the hare has covered just 1/3rd of the distance. Find by
how many times the hare should increase his speed, so that he just manages to
finish the race at the same time as tortoise does.

6). Three friends Karina, Saif and Shahid decided to travel a certain distance from
Mumbai to Pune, but they had just one Scooty which could carry only two persons
at a time. So, Karina decided first she will take Shahid with her on her bike and Saif
will start walking towards Pune. After travelling a certain distance she droped
Shahid in between, who continued to walk towards Pune and Karina returned back
picked Saif somewhere in between and started the journey towards Pune. All the
three of them reach Pune at the same time. Find the distance from Mumbai to
Pune, if they all started at 6.00 a.m. and reached Pune at 12.30 pm. Given that, the
walking speed of every person is 20 km/hr and Karina rides Scooty at a constant
speed of 80 km/hr.
7). There are two stations X and Y 72 km apart. Santa starts from X with a speed of
4 km/hr while Banta starts from Y with a speed of 2 km/hr and increases his speed
by 0.5 km/hr every hour. Find after how many hours the two of them will meet?

8). Two gun shots are fired from a same point with an interval of 30 min. But a
person travelling in a car an approaching the point heard them at an interval of 28
min. Find the speed of the person, given that speed of the sound is 330 m/s.

9). Krish starts on his bicycle from his house for his school every day at a fixed
time. A train going in the same direction crosses him every day at a fixed point at a
fixed time. On a particular day he was ½ hr late to start from his house and the train
crossed him at a distance of 12 km before the usual meeting point. Find the speed
of the train, if Krish rides his bicycle with a speed of 18 km/hr.

10). There is a cat stuck up in a tunnel at a distance 5/12th of the length of the
tunnel and suddenly it heard a train whistle. It ran towards the nearer end and just
managed to come out of the tunnel when the train was going to enter the tunnel.
Had it ran towards the other end, still it would have just managed to come out of
the tunnel. Find the ratio of speed of the cat and the train.

11). There is a battalion of soldiers 50 m long marching ahead at a constant speed.

The last person is asked to deliver an important message to the first person. He
runs fast, meets the first person, and without wasting time, just hands over the
parcel and joins back the battalion at his position .In the whole time the battalion
had travelled 50 m. Find the distance travelled by the person in the whole process

12). A train starts from Nagpur towards Pune at 6 am and reaches the destination
at 11 am. While another train starts from Pune towards Nagpur at 7 am and
reaches the destination at 11 am. Find at what time will the two trains met.