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QA - 08
TSD - 2
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Two trains are running on parallel tracks and they travel at the rates of 25 kmph and 30

for the second train to catch up with the first train?

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kmph. If the first train leaves an hour earlier than the second train, how long will it take

(1) 3 hr (2) 4 hr

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(4) 5 hr (5) 7 hr

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Question – 1
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A train 150 m long takes 9 sec to cross a man walking at 8 kmph in a direction opposite
to that of the train. Find the speed (in km/hr) of the train.
(1) 72 (2) 60
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(3) 54 (4) 52

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Question – 2
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A train crosses a 250 m long platform. The speed of the train is 36 km/hr. The total time
taken by the train to cross the platform is 35 s. The length of the train is
(1) 120 m (2) 110 m (3)125 m
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(4) 100 m
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Question – 3
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A dog stands at a point A. At a distance of 40 m from A, stands a fox. The dog starts
chasing the fox and goes in pursuit of the fox 40 m away. The dog takes leaps of 2 m

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against 1 m long leaps of the fox. Had the dog taken two leaps against the fox’s three,
at what distance from A, would the dog have caught up with the fox?
(1) 150 m
(4) 120 m
(2) 160 m
(5) 130 m
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Question – 4
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A certain race is made up of three stretches: A, B and C, each 2 km long, and to be
covered by a certain mode of transport. The following table gives these modes of

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transport for the stretches, and the minimum and maximum possible speeds (in km/hr)
over these stretches. The speed over a particular stretch is assumed to be constant. The
previous record for the race is 10 min.

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A Car 40 60

B Motorcycle 30 50

C Bicycle 10 20

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Mr Tortoise completes the race at an average speed of 20 km/hr. His average speed for
the first two stretches is four times that for the last stretch. Find the speed over stretch C.
(1) 15 km/hr (2) 12 km/hr
(3) 10 km/hr (4) This is not possible

Question – 5
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Answer the question based on the following information.

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Boston is 4 hr ahead of Frankfurt and 2 hr behind India. X leaves Frankfurt at 6 p.m. on
Friday and reaches Boston the next day. After waiting there for 2 hr, he leaves exactly

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at noon and reaches India at 1 a.m. On his return journey, he takes the same route as
before, but halts at Boston for 1hr less than his previous halt there. He then proceeds to
Frankfurt.

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If his journey, including stoppage, is covered at an average speed of 180 mph, what is

(1) 3,600 miles

(3) 5,580 miles
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the distance between Frankfurt and India?

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(2) 4,500 miles
(4) Data insufficient

Question – 6
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Answer the question based on the following information.

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Boston is 4 hr ahead of Frankfurt and 2 hr behind India. X leaves Frankfurt at 6 p.m. on
Friday and reaches Boston the next day. After waiting there for 2 hr, he leaves exactly

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at noon and reaches India at 1 a.m. On his return journey, he takes the same route as
before, but halts at Boston for 1hr less than his previous halt there. He then proceeds to
Frankfurt.

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If X had started the return journey from India at 2.55 a.m. on the same day that he

(1) 176 mph

(3) 165 mph
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reached there, what is X's average speed for the entire journey (to and fro)?

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(2) 180 mph
(4) Data insufficient

Question – 7
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Two trains start from A and B and head towards B and A respectively. Train from A
starts at 11 p.m. and reaches B at 5 p.m. next day. Train from B starts at 10 p.m. the

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same day on which the train starts from station A and reaches A at 6 a.m. the next day.
At what time (approximately) will they cross each other?
(1) 4 a.m.
(4) 4.05 a.m.
(2) 3.55 a.m.
(5) 3.51 a.m.
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Question – 8
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Train X departs from station A at 11 a.m. for station B, which is 180 km far from A. Train
Y departs from station B at 11 a.m. for station A. Train X travels at an average speed of

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70 km/hr and does not stop anywhere until it arrives at station B. Train Y travels at an
average speed of 50 km/hr, but has to stop for 15 min at station C, which is 60 km away

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from station B, enroute to station A. Ignoring the lengths of the trains, what is the
distance, to the nearest kilometre, from station A to the point where the trains cross
each other?
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(CAT 2001)
(1) 112 km (2) 118 km
(3) 120 km
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(4) None of these

Question – 9
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An escalator is moving at 3 steps per second. Harish walks in the same direction as the

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moving escalator at 2 steps per second and takes 3 second less to get out of the

(1) 16 steps (2) 10 steps

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escalator than when he was moving on the stationary escalator. How many steps are
there in the stationary escalator?

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(4) 20 steps (5) Data insufficient

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Question – 10
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Rajat takes 11 steps to reach the bottom of an escalator in 35 seconds. Sharad walks

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on the same escalator and takes 39 steps in 21 sec to reach the bottom. How many

down in both the cases)

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steps are visible on the escalator when it is not moving? (Note: The escalator is coming

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(1) 75 (2) 81

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(3) 88 (4) 90

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Question – 11
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An escalator is coming down at a constant speed. Vivek takes 40 steps to reach to the

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bottom. The time in which he takes 15 steps, Samar manages to reach the bottom by

take to walk down?

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taking 45 steps. If the escalator were turned off, how many steps would they have to

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(1) 48 (2) 45

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(3) 56 (4) 97

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Question – 12
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Arpit is running on an escalator that is coming down at constant speed. If Arpit runs

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down at 12 steps/sec and reaches the bottom in 12 sec, then find the speed (in

the escalator is stationary is 264.

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steps/sec) of the escalator if it is known that the number of steps which are visible when

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(1) 9 (2) 10

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(3) 11 (4) 12

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Question – 13
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An escalator is coming down at 2 steps/sec. Prashant starts from top and comes down

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at 4 steps/sec. Meena starts from bottom and moves up at 5 steps/sec. If they start

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are visible when the escalator is stationary.
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together and meet on a particular step after 10 sec, then find the number of steps that

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(1) 119 (2) 89

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(3) 95 (4) 90

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Question – 14
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An escalator is moving up at a constant speed. Govind runs at 8 steps/sec and

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reaches to the bottom in 18 sec. At the same time Sajid runs at 4.25 steps/sec and

(1) 2 (2) 3
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reaches to the top in 24 sec. Find the speed of the escalator in steps/sec.

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(3) (4) 1

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Question – 15
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Shyama and Vyom walk up an escalator (moving upward). The escalator moves at a

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constant speed. Shyama takes three steps for every two of Vyom’s steps. Shyama gets
to the top of the escalator after having taken 25 steps, while Vyom (because his slower

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pace lets the escalator do a little more of the work) takes only 20 steps to reach the top.
If the escalator were turned off, how many steps would they have to take to walk up?

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(1) 40 (2) 50 (3) 60 (4) 80

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Question – 16
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On an upward moving escalator, Amit, Sanjeev and Vicky take 10 steps, 8 steps and 5

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steps respectively to reach the top. On the same upward moving escalator Amit takes

Vicky to reach the top.

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30 steps to come down from the top. Find the ratio of the time taken by Sanjeev and

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(1) 7 : 16 (2) 8 : 5

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(3) 5 : 8 (4) 7 : 10

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Question – 17
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To cover the distance of 450 kms between Delhi and Jaipur, Shivku started at 2.00 p.m.
from Delhi. He drove at a speed of 30 kmph for the first 3 hours and then changed his

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speed to 45 kmph. He maintained this speed for the next 180 km and then changed his
speed once again to reach Jaipur at 11.00 p.m. on the same day on which he started
from Delhi. Rajasthan State Transport Corporation (RSTC) runs a bus service from

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Jaipur to Delhi. One bus starts every hour with the first bus leaving Jaipur at 6.00 a.m.
and the last bus of the day leaving Jaipur at 8.00 p.m. All RSTC buses run at a uniform
speed of 45 kmph. A ‘meeting’ is said to happen whenever Shivku meets an RSTC bus
on his way to Jaipur.

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Note:
(1) No time was lost during change of speed for Shivku.
(2) Shivku’s individual speeds at exact time 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm were 30 km/hr and
45 km/hr respectively.

For questions 18 and 19

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Find the ratio of the minimum and the maximum possible time interval between any two

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consecutive meetings.
(1) 1 : 3
(3) 1 : 4
(2) 2 : 3
(4) 5 : 9
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Question – 18
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Find the ratio of number of buses that Shivku met when he was driving at 30 kmph, at

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45 kmph and at the speed with which he drove during the last part of his journey
respectively.
(1) 2 : 5 : 6
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(3) 4 : 8 : 3
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Question – 19
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A bird sitting on a wall spots an approaching train, which is 720 km away and moving

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at a speed of 15 m/s. The bird starts flying towards the train and as soon as it

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reaches the train, it flies back towards the wall. It continues to do this to and fro
motion till the time the train crashes into the wall. If the bird can fly at a speed of 120
kmph, find the total distance covered by the bird while it was flying towards the wall.
(1) 860 km (2) 660 km
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(4) 1000 km
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(5) 800 km

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Question – 20
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A thief escaped from police custody. Since he was a sprinter, he could run at a speed of
40 km/hr. The police realized it after 3 hr and started chasing him in the same direction

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at 50 km/hr. The police had a dog which could run at 60 km/hr. The dog would run to
the thief and then return to the police and then would run back towards the thief. It kept

the direction of the thief.

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on doing so till the police caught the thief. Find the total distance travelled by the dog in

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(1) 720 km (2) 600 km (3) 640 km
(4) 680 km (5) 660 km

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Question – 21
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A car is climbing up a hill at a speed of 90 kmph. A rabbit, sitting at the top of the hill,

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spots the car when it is 1170 km away and starts running down the hill towards the car

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at a speed of 140 kmph. As soon as it meets the car, the rabbit turns back towards the
top of the hill at a speed of 120 kmph. The rabbit continues this to and fro motion from

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the top of the hill towards the car and again back at the top of the hill till the car reaches

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(1) 1840 km (2) 1340 km
(3) 1640 km (4) 1680 km

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Question – 22
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A police inspector spots a thief standing 7 kms away from him on a straight road

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aligned in East-West direction. The inspector is standing on the eastern side while the

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thief is on the western side of the road. On spotting the inspector the thief takes his
bicycle and tries to cut across the adjoining field by riding away with a uniform speed of
9 2km/hour in a direction making an angle of 45° with the road towards North-East. The

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inspector starts with his scooter at the same instance to move with a uniform velocity 15

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km/hour and catches the thief.
(XAT 09)

(1) 12 minutes O n
Time taken by the inspector to catch the thief is:
(2) 15 minutes (3) 18 minutes
(4) 20 minutes (5) 30 minutes

Question – 23
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A police inspector spots a thief standing 7 kms away from him on a straight road

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aligned in East-West direction. The inspector is standing on the eastern side while the

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thief is on the western side of the road. On spotting the inspector the thief takes his
bicycle and tries to cut across the adjoining field by riding away with a uniform speed of
9 2km/hour in a direction making an angle of 45° with the road towards North-East. The

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inspector starts with his scooter at the same instance to move with a uniform velocity 15

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km/hour and catches the thief.
(XAT 09)

(1) 3 km O n
The distance the inspector has to travel is:
(2) 3.75 km (3) 5 km
(4) 6 km (5) 7.5 km

Question – 24
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City Bus Corporation runs two buses from terminus A to terminus B, each bus making 5

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round trips in a day. There are no stops in between. These buses ply back and forth on

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the same route at different but uniform speeds. Each morning the buses start at 7 AM
from the respective terminuses. They meet for the first time at a distance of 7 km from

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terminus A. Their next meeting is at a distance of 4 km from terminus B, while travelling
in opposite directions. Assuming that the time taken by the buses at the terminuses is
negligibly small, and the cost of running a bus is Rs. 20 per km, find the daily cost of

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running the buses (in Rs.).
(1) 3200 (2) 4000 (3) 6400
(4) 6800
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Question – 25