Quantitative Aptitude

TSD - 2
Relative Speed
A man saw a train passing over a 10 km long bridge. The length of the train is one-
fourth that of the bridge. If the train clears the bridge in 2.5 min, then speed of the train
is

(1) 150 km/hr (2) 300 km/hr (3) 250 km/hr (4) 120 km/hr

Question – 1
Two boats, traveling at 5 and 10 kms per hour, head directly towards each other. They
begin at a distance of 20 kms from each other. How far apart are they (in kms) one
minute before they collide.
1 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4)
12 6 4 3

Question – 2
Question – 3
If a train crosses a man in 10 sec and a 150 m long plateform in 22 sec, then its speed
and length are
(1) 12.5 m/sec, 125 m (2) 12 m/sec, 120 m
(3) 13.5 m/sec, 135 m (4) 13 m/sec, 130 m

Question – 4
The distance between the two stations X and Y is 220 km. A train leaves station X for Y
at a speed 80 km/hr. After half an hour, another train leaves station Y for X at a speed
100 km/hr. Find the distance of the point where the two trains meet from X.
(1) 100 km (2) 120 km (3) 80 km (4) 140 km

Question – 5
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
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. (2) 3.55 a.m. (3) 2.51 a.m. (4) 3.51 a.m.

Question – 6
August Kranti Rajdhani Express leaves Delhi towards Mumbai at 12.20 p.m. and travels
uniformally at 80 km/hr. Rajdhani Express leaves Chennai towards Delhi at 3.10 p.m.
and travels uniformally at 120 km/hr. Both the trains cross at Baroda at 4.30 p.m. On a
particular day, Rajdhani leaves at 3.20 p.m. and the other train leaves at its usual time.
When will the two trains cross each other?
(1) 4.32 p.m. (2) 4.38 p.m. (3) 4.40 p.m. (4) 4.36 p.m

Question – 7
X and Y are stationed at points A and B respectively. Everyday X and Y start
simultaneously from A and B to reach B and A respectively. Everyday they cross each
other at a point R. From the point R, the time taken by X to reach B and the time taken
by Y to reach A is 36s and 16s respectively. One particular day Y started late and during
that time X had covered 20 km. Find the distance between the point R and the point
where they met on that day.
(1) 12 km (2) 10 km (3) 16 km (4) 8 km

Question – 8
Singur, Nandigram and Kolkata are 3 villages on a straight road such that Singur is
somewhere in between the other two villages. Distance of Kolkata from Singur is 10 km
and the distance of Kolkata from Nandigram is 17 km. Buddha and Biman start running
from Singur at 9:00 a.m. in opposite directions at 4 m/s and 3 m/s respectively. Mamta
Starts from Nandigram in a car moving at 36 km/hr. towards Kolkata, but she started 10
minutes later than Buddha and Biman. If the interval between the time when Mamta
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met Buddha and the time when Mamta met Biman is approximately15 mins,then find
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the distance (in km) between Buddha and Biman when Mamta meets Biman.

Question – 9
Nikhil reaches school everyday at 5 p.m. to pick up his children. On a Saturday, the
school got over at 4 p.m. and the children started walking towards home. Nikhil met
them on their way and returned home 30 min earlier. How long did the children walk?
(1) 50 min (2) 55 min (3) 45 min (4) 30 min

Question – 10
Answer the question on the basis of the information given below.
A spaceship A leaves Earth for Jupiter at noon on Monday travelling at 30,000 km/hr.
After 6 hr another spaceship B leaves Jupiter for Earth travelling at 50,000 km/hr. The
distance between Jupiter and Earth is 9,80,000 km. [Assume the spaceships move in
straight lines and the planets are stationary with respect to each other.]
A spaceship C leaves Earth 12 hours after A and meets A at the same time as B What
is the speed of C?
(1) 1,00,000 km/hr (2) 1,20,000 km/hr
(3) 80,000 km/hr (4) 96,000 km/hr

Question – 11
Answer the question on the basis of the information given below.
A spaceship A leaves Earth for Jupiter at noon on Monday travelling at 30,000 km/hr.
After 6 hr another spaceship B leaves Jupiter for Earth travelling at 50,000 km/hr. The
distance between Jupiter and Earth is 9,80,000 km. [Assume the spaceships move in
straight lines and the planets are stationary with respect to each other.]
The absolute difference between the time at which A reaches Jupiter and B reaches
Earth is
(1) 5 hr 36 min (2) 5 hr 6 min (3) 7 hr 4 min (4) 6 hr 36 min

Question – 12
A and B start moving towards each other simultaneously in a straight line from cities P
and Q respectively. After travelling some distance, B takes a 30° turn to his left with
respect to his original direction. Two hour after B turned, A takes a 90° turn to his right.
A travels 60 km after turning, before meeting B. They meet 10 hour after starting their
journey. A and B together travel 170 km before turning and arrive at the meeting point
simultaneously. How many hours after turning did A meet B?
(1) 3.5 hr (2) 3 hr (3) 4 hr (4) 4.5 hr

Question – 13
A car overtakes a bus travelling from Bangalore to Chennai at 6:30 a.m. The car
reaches Chennai at 8 a.m. After stopping there for 1 hour, it starts back towards
Bangalore and meets the same bus at 9 : 30 a.m., which was moving towards Chennai
at that time. If both the car and the bus travel at uniform speeds on the same route,
then what will be the time when the bus would reach Chennai?
(1) 10:00 a.m. (2) 10:30 a.m. (3) 11:00 a.m. (4) 9:45 a.m.

Question – 14
Consider a road with two cars at a distance of 500 km driving in the opposite direction.
The left-side car drives at a speed of 40 km/hr and the right-side car at a speed of 60
km/hr. A bird starts from the same location as the right-side car and flies at a speed of
80 km/hr. When it reaches the left-side car, it turns its direction; and when it reaches the
right-side car, it turns its direction again to the opposite, and so on. What is the total
distance that the bird has covered till the moment the two cars reach each other?
(1) 200 km (2) 400 km (3) 450 km (4) 300 km

Question – 15
A and B start simultaneously from P and reach R via Q along the same road. A travels
at 15 km/hr from P to Q and at 20 km/hr from Q to R. B travels at 20 km/hr from P to Q
and at 15 km/hr from Q to R. A reaches at R, 10 min before B reaches there. If the time
taken to cover PQ to the time taken to cover QR by B is in the ratio 1:2, find the
distance between P and R.
(1) 35 km (2) 50 km (3) 55 km (4) 45 km

Question – 16
Only a single rail track exists between stations A and B on a railway line. One hour after
the north- bound super fast train N leaves station A for station B, a south-bound
passenger train S reaches station A from station B. The speed of the super fast train is
twice that of a normal express train E, while the speed of a passenger train S is half
that of E. On a particular day, N leaves for B from A, 20 min behind the normal
schedule. In order to maintain the schedule, both N and S increased their speeds. If the
super fast train doubles its speed, what should be the ratio (approximately) of the
speeds of passenger train to that of the super fast train so that the passenger train S
reaches exactly at the scheduled time at A on that day?
(1) 1 : 3 (2) 1 : 4 (3) 1 : 5 (4) 1 : 6

Question – 17
Navjivan Express from Ahmedabad to Chennai leaves Ahmedabad at 6.30 a.m. and
travels at 50 kmph towards Baroda situated 100 km away. At 7.00 a.m. Howrah-
Ahmedabad Express leaves Baroda towards Ahmedabad and travels at 40 kmph. At
7.30 a.m. Mr Shah, the traffic controller at Baroda realizes that both the trains are
running on the same track. How much time does he have to avert a head-on collision
between the two trains?
(1) 15 min (2) 20 min (3) 25 min (4) 30 min

Question – 18
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A train approaches a tunnel AB. Inside the tunnel is a cat located at a point that is of
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the distance AB measured from the entrance A. When the train whistles the cat runs. If
the cat moves to the entrance of the tunnel A, the train catches the cat exactly at the
entrance. If the cat moves to the exit B, the train catches the cat at exactly the exit. The
speed of the train is greater than the speed of the cat by what order?
(1) 3 : 1 (2) 4 :1 (3) 5 : 1 (4) None of these

Question – 19
Ayesha started running from one end of a straight road at 0500 hrs. Bhumika, standing
at the other end of the road, started running towards Ayesha at 0600 hrs and met
Ayesha at a point P on the road. They continued running till they reached the opposite
ends, turned back immediately and coincidently met again at the same point P. If they
met at the point P for the first time at 0700 hrs, then what is the ratio of the speeds of
Ayesha and Bhumika?
(1) 1 : 1 (2) 1 : 2 (3) 2: 3 (4) 3 : 2

Question – 20
Question – 21
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
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.

Min. Max.

A Car 40 60

B Motorcycle 30 50

C Bicycle 10 20

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 – 22
Escalators
A man can walk up in a moving escalator (upwards) in 30 s. The same man can walk
down this moving 'up' escalator in 90 s. Assume that his walking speed is same in both
upward and downward motion. How much time will he take to walk up the escalator
when it is not moving?
(1) 30 s (2) 75 s (3) 60 s (4) 45 s
An escalator is moving at 3 steps per second. Harish walks in the same direction as the
moving escalator at 2 steps per second and takes 3 second less to get out of the
escalator than when he was moving on the stationary escalator. How many steps are
there in the stationary escalator?
Rajat takes 11 steps to reach the bottom of an escalator in 35 seconds. Sharad walks
on the same escalator and takes 39 steps in 21 sec to reach the bottom. How many
steps are visible on the escalator when it is not moving? (Note: The escalator is coming
down in both the cases)
An escalator is coming down at a constant speed. Vivek takes 40 steps to reach to the
bottom. The time in which he takes 15 steps, Samar manages to reach the bottom by
taking 45 steps. If the escalator were turned off, how many steps would they have to
take to walk down?
Shyama and Vyom walk up an escalator (moving stairway). The escalator moves at a
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
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?