TIME, SPEED AND DISTANCE

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1. A takes 2 hours more than B to cover a distance of 40 km. If A doubles his speed, he takes 1
hours more
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than B to cover 80 km. To cover a distance of 90km, how much time will B take travelling at his same
speed?
40 km A B 2 A
1
80 km B 1 90km B
2
3 1 1 1
(a) 1 hours (b) 1 hours (c) 1 hours (d) 1 hours
8 8 6 3
SSC CGL Mains (2020)
2. A takes 2 hours 30 minutes more than B to walk 40 km. If A doubles his speed, then he can make it in 1
hour less than B. What is the average time taken by A and B to walk a 40 km distance?
A B A B
A B
(a) 5 hours 45 minutes (b) 7 hours 15 minutes (c) 5 hours 15 minutes (d) 6 hours
(SSC CPO 2020)
3. A train travelling at the speed of x km/h crossed a 300m long platform in 30 second, and overtook a man
walking in the same direction at 6km/h in 20 seconds. What is the value of x?
x
x
(a) 60 (b) 96 (c) 48 (d) 102
(SSC CPO 2020)
4. A man is walking at a speed of 12 km/h. After every km. he takes rest for 3 minutes. How much time will
he take to cover a distance of 6 km?

(a) 42 minutes (b) 40 minutes (c) 48 minutes (d) 45 minutes

(CHSL-2020)
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5. A student walks from his house at a speed of 2 km per hour and reaches his school 6 minutes late. The next
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day he increases his speed by 1 km per hour and reaches 6 minutes before school time. How far is the school
from his house?
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2 6 1
2
6
5 7 9 11
(a) km (b) km (c) km (d) km
4 4 4 4
(SSC CGL Tier-I 2007)
6. Two trains start from a certain place on two parallel tracks in the same direction. The speed of the trains
are 45 km/hr and 40 km/hr respectively. The distance between the two trains after 45 minutes will be
45 40 45

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 (a) 2 km 500 m (b) 2 km 750 m (c) 3 km 750 m (d) 3 km 250 m
(SSC Assistant Grade-III 2012)
7. In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he
would take 1 hour less than Sameer. Abhay’s speed (in km/hr) is
30 2 1

(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 6.25 (d) 7.5

(SSC Constable(GD) 2012)
8. Two trains are running 40 km/hr and 20 km/hr respectively in the same direction. The fast train completely
passes a man sitting in the slower train in 5 seconds. the length of the faster train is
40 / 20 /
5
2 7
(a) 23 m (b) 27 m (c) 27 m (d) 23 m
9 9
(SSC CGL Tier-II 2013)

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9. A is twice as fast as B and B is thrice as fast as C. The journey covered by C in 1 hours will be covered by
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A in
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A, B B, C 'C' 1 A
2
(a) 15 minutes (b) 2 minutes (c) 30 minutes (d) 1 hour
(SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2014)
10. A man travelled a distance of 72 km in 12 hours. He travelled partly on foot at 5 km/hour and partly on bicycle at
10 km/hour. The distance travelled on foot is
72 12 5 10

(a) 50 km (b) 48 km (c) 52 km (d) 46 km

(SSC CPO SI 2016)
11. A man can cover a certain distance in 3 hours 36 minutes if he walks at the rate of 5 km/hr. If he covers the
same distance on cycle at the rate of 24 km/hr, then the time taken by him in minutes is
5 3 36 24

(a) 40 (b) 45 (c) 50 (d) 55

(SSC CGL Tier-II 2016)
12. After repairing a scooter runs at a speed of 54 km/hr and before repairing runs at speed of 48 km/h. If
covers a certain distance in 6 hours after repairing. How much time will it take to cover the same
distance before repairing?

(a) 6 hrs 15 min. (b) 6 hrs 45 min. (c) 7 hrs (d) 7 hrs 30 min.
(SSC CGL Tier-I 2017)