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QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE
TIME, SPEED & DISTANCE
Level Based Questions

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 TIME, SPEED & DISTANCE
LEVEL-1:
1) How long will a boy take to run round a square field of side 35 meters, If he runs at the rate
of 9 km/hr?
a. 50 sec
b. 52 sec
c. 54 sec
d. 56 sec
2) Jerry is noticed by Tom from a distance of 200 m. Jerry starts running and the Tom chases
him. Jerry and the Tom run at the rate of 10 km and 11 km per hour respectively. What is
the distance between them after 6 minutes?
a. 100 m
b. 150 m
c. 190 m
d. 200 m
3) A boy walking at the rate of 5 km/hr crosses a tunnel in 15 minutes. The length of the tunnel
(in metres) is
a. 600
b. 1000
c. 1250
d. 1500
4) A race course is 400 m long. A and B run a race and A wins by 5m. B and C run over the
same course and B win by 4m. C and D run over it and D wins by 16m. If A and D run over
it, then who would win and by how much?
a. D by 7.2 m
b. A by 7.2 m
c. D by 8.4 m
d. A by 8.4 m
5) A train 120 m in length passes a pole in 12sec and another train of length 100 m travelling
in opposite direction in 10 sec. The speed of the second train in km/hr:
a. 43
b. 43.2
c. 43.4
d. 43.6
6) A bus travels first half distance between two places with a speed of 40 km/hr and rest of the
half distance with a speed of 60 km/hr. The average speed of the bus is:
a. 37 km/hr
b. 44 km/hr
c. 45 km/hr
d. 48 km/hr

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7) Rajesh can row a certain distance downstream in 6 hour and return the same distance in 9
hour. If the speed of Rajesh in still water is 12 km/hr, Find the speed of the stream.
a. 1.4 km/hr
b. 2.0 km/hr
c. 2.4 km/hr
d. 3.0 km/hr
8) A train leaves station X at 5am and reaches station Y at 9 am. Another train leaves
station Y at 7 am and reaches station X at 10:30 am. At what time do the two trains cross
each other?
a. 7:36 am
b. 7:46 am
c. 7:56 am
d. 8:06 am
9) A boat covers a distance of 30 km downstream in 2 hour while it takes 6 hour to cover the
same distance upstream. What is the speed of the boat in km/hr
a. 5
b. 7.5
c. 10
d. 12
10) Walking at 3/5 of his usual speed, a man reaches his office 20 minute late, then usual time is
a. 30 min
b. 60 min
c. 120 min
d. 90 min
11) A bus covers a distance in 50 minutes, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. Find
the speed at which the bus must run to reduce the time of journey to 40 minutes.
a. 50 km/hr
b. 60 km/hr
c. 65 km/hr
d. 70 km/hr
12) A passenger trainer takes two hours less for a journey of 300 km if its speed is increased by
5 km/h from its normal speed. The normal speed of the train is
a. 35 km/h
b. 50 km/h
c. 25 km/h
d. 30 km/h
13) A walks around a circular field at the rate of one round per hour while B runs around it at
the rate of six rounds per hour. They start in the same direction from the same point at 7.30
a.m. They shall first cross each other at:
a. 7:42 am
b. 7:48 am
c. 8:10 am
d. 8:30 am

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 14) A boat goes 24 km upstream and 28 km downstream in 6 hours. It goes 30km upstream and
21 km downstream in 6 hours and 30 minutes. The speed of the boat in still water is :
a. 10 km/h
b. 4 km/h
c. 14 km/h
d. 6 km/h

15) A man walks half of the journey at 4 km/h by cycle does one third of journey at 12 km/h
and rides the remainder journey in a horse cart at 9 km/h, thus completing the whole journey
in 6 hours and 12 minutes. The length of the journey is
a. 36 km
b. 40 km
c. 28 km
d. 1332/67 km
Level-2:
16) A dog starts chasing to a cat 2 hours later. It takes 2 hours to dog to catch the cat. If the
speed of the dog is 30 km/h, what is the speed of cat?
a. 10 km/h
b. 15 km/h
c. 20 km/h
d. Can’t be determined

17) A thief steals a car at 2:30 p.m. and drives it at 60 kmph. The theft is discovered at 3 p.m.
and the owner sets off in another car at 75 kmph. When will he overtake the thief
a. 4:30 pm
b. 4:45 pm
c. 5:00 pm
d. 5:15 pm
18) A man who can swim 48 m/min in still water swims 200 m against the current and 200 m
with the current. If the difference between those two times is 10 minutes, find the speed of
the current.
a. 29 m/min
b. 30 m/min
c. 31 m/min
d. 32 m/min
19) A train after travelling 150 km meets with an accident and then proceeds with 3/5 of its
former speed and arrives at its destination 8 h late. Had the accident occurred 360 km
further, it would have reached the destination 4 h late. What is the total distance travelled by
the train?
a. 840 km
b. 960 km
c. 870 km
d. 1100 km
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 20) A passenger sitting in a train of length 100 m, which is running with speed of 60 km/h
passing through two bridges, notices that he crosses the first bridge and the second bridge in
time intervals which are in the ratio of 7 : 4 respectively. If the length of first bridge be 280
m, then the length of the second bridge is:
a. 490 m
b. 220 m
c. 160 m
d. Can’t be determined
21) A tiger is 50 of its own leaps behind a deer. The tiger takes 5 leaps per minute to the deer’s
4. If the tiger and the deer cover 8 m and 5 m per leap respectively, what distance will the
tiger have to run before it catches the deer?
a. 600 m
b. 700 m
c. 800 m
d. 1000 m

LEVEL-3:
22) A car travels 25 km/h faster than a bus for a journey of 500km. If the bus takes 10 h more
than the car, then the speeds of the car and the bus are:
a. 25 km/h and 40 km/h
b. 50 km/h and 25 km/h
c. 25 km/h and 60 km/h
d. None of these
23) Two people A and B start from P and Q (distance = D) at the same time towards each other.
They meet at a point R, which is at a distance 0.4 D from P. They continue to move to and
fro between the two points. Find the distance from point P at which the fourth meeting takes
place.
a. 0.3D
b. 0.4D
c. 0.6D
d. 0.8D
24) A motorcyclist left point A for point B. Two hours later, another motorcyclist left A for B
and arrived at B at the same time as the first motorcyclist. Had both motorcyclists started
simultaneously from A and B travelling towards each other, they would have met in 80
minutes. How much time did it take the faster motorcyclist to travel from A to B?
a. 6 hrs
b. 3 hrs
c. 2 hrs
d. 4 hrs
25) A train leaves station X at 5 a.m. and reaches station Y at 9 a.m. Another train leaves station
Y at 7 a.m. and reaches station X at 10: 30 a.m. At what time do the two trains cross each
other ?
a. 7:36 am
b. 7:56 am

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 c. 8:36 am
d. 8:56 am
26) Two ducks move along the circumference of a circular pond in the same direction and come
alongside each other every 54 minutes. If they moved with the same speeds in the opposite
directions, they would meet every 9 minutes. It is known that when the ducks moved along
the circumference in opposite directions, the distance between them decreased from 54 to 14
feet every 48 seconds. What is the speed of the slower duck?
a. 20 ft/min
b. 15 ft/min
c. 30 ft/min
d. 20.83 ft/min

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