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Time, Speed and Distance Questions with Answers

Relative speed, trains crossing, boats against a stream, and average speed over unequal legs. This page pools every time, speed and distance question on the site (198 of them, from 48 exams, weighted towards Banking, Management, Railways) so you can drill the topic on its own instead of meeting four of them inside a full paper.

14% of the pool is graded hard on this site’s own scale and 28% easy, which is about average for this section.

Questions
198
Practice set
25 in 25 min
Difficulty
56/114/28
Negative marking
None
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Time, Speed and Distance questions with solutions

6 from the 198-question pool, worked in full.

  1. 1. A bus covers 285 km in 5 hours. Find its speed.

    • A. 53 km/h
    • B. 55 km/h
    • C. 59 km/h
    • D. 57 km/h ✓

    Solution. Speed = distance/time = 285/5 = 57 km/h.

  2. 2. A train passes a 120 m platform in 18 s. It also overtakes a cyclist moving at 6 m/s in the same direction in 14 s. Assuming constant speed, what is the length of the train?

    • A. 42 m ✓
    • B. 36 m
    • C. 54 m
    • D. 78 m

    Solution. Let train speed be v and length L. L+120=18v and L=14(v−6). Thus 18v−120=14v−84, so v=9 m/s and L=42 m.

  3. 3. A car covers 240 km in 4 hours. Find its speed.

    • A. 60 km/h ✓
    • B. 50 km/h
    • C. 55 km/h
    • D. 65 km/h

    Solution. Speed = distance/time = 240/4 = 60 km/h.

  4. 4. A train 120 m long crosses a pole in 8 seconds. Find its speed in km/h.

    • A. 50
    • B. 54 ✓
    • C. 58
    • D. 60

    Solution. Speed = 120 m ÷ 8 s = 15 m/s = 15 × 3.6 = 54 km/h.

  5. 5. A train travels 180 km in 3 hours. What is its average speed?

    • A. 50 km/h
    • B. 55 km/h
    • C. 60 km/h ✓
    • D. 65 km/h

    Solution. Speed = Distance / Time = 180 / 3 = 60 km/h.

  6. 6. A train 150 m long crosses a platform 250 m long in 20 seconds. Find the speed of the train in km/h.

    • A. 64 km/h
    • B. 68 km/h
    • C. 72 km/h ✓
    • D. 76 km/h

    Solution. Total distance = 150+250 = 400 m. Speed = 400/20 = 20 m/s = 20 × 18/5 = 72 km/h.

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Time, Speed and Distance: frequently asked questions

How many time, speed and distance questions are there?

198, from the 48 exams here whose syllabus sets the topic. 28% are graded easy and 14% hard, which makes time, speed and distance about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.

Which exams ask time, speed and distance questions?

48 of the exams on this site, weighted towards Banking (14), Management (13), Railways (8). Every question in this pool comes from one of their own mock tests, so the list below is the honest answer to whether the topic is worth your time.

Is time, speed and distance hard?

14% of these 198 questions are graded hard and 28% easy, making it about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.

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