Speed x Time = Distance

MIT School of Corporate Innovation and Leadership

By Prof. Ruturaj
Conversion of Units:
➢ Complete the table.

Speed in km/hr Speed in m/s

54 ??
?? 10
90 ??
?? 35
Simple Example:

Two cars leave simultaneously from points A & B (100km apart) & they
meet at a point 40 km from A. What is Sa/Sb?

(a) 2/5

(b) 3/5

(c) 2/3 100 km

(d) 3/2
Constant:

Speed:

Time:

Distance:
A is twice as fast as B and B is thrice as fast as C. The journey
covered by C in 1.5 hr will be covered by A in:

(a) 10 min (b) 15 min

(c) 30 min (d) 1 hr

Walking at 3/4th of usual speed, a man is 1.5 hr late. Find the usual time
taken by him to cover the distance

(a) 4 (b) 5

(c) 4.5 (d) 5.5

A man starts from a place P and reaches the place Q in 7 hours.
He travels 1/4th of the distance at 10 kmph and the remaining
distance at 12 kmph. Find the distance between P and Q.

(a) 70 km (b) 72 km

(c) 80 km (d) 90 km
 Concept of
Average Speed
Average Speed
• Generic Formula

Average Speed = total distance/total time

2.𝑆1.𝑆2
Average speed =
𝑆1+𝑆2
Akshay travels at 20 kmph from home to office and returns at 30
km/hr. What is the average speed of his complete journey?

a) 25 kmph

b) 23 kmph

c) 24 kmph

d) 26 kmph
Man cover a certain distance by car during driving at 70km/hr and
returns back to the starting point riding on a scooter at the speed
of 55 km/hr. Find his average speed during the whole journey?
(a) 60
(b) 61.6
(c) 65
(d) 61.8
A person travels 400 km by train at 80 kmph, 800 km by ship at 40 kmph,
1200 km by plane at 400 kmph and 100 km by car at 50 kmph. Find average
speed of his entire journey (in kmph).

(a) 80.67 (b) 84.33

(c) 80 (d) 83.33

A man walking with a speed of 5 km/hr reaching his
target 5 min late. If he walks at a speed of 6 km/hr
he reaches on time. Find the distance of his target
from his house.
(a) 3 km (b) 2 km
(c) 4 km (d) 2.5 km
A man goes to office with 4 km/hr and comes
back with 3 km/hr. If he takes 7 hours in all,
then what is the distance from his home to
office?

(a) 24 km (b) 12 km

(c) 30 km (d) None of the above

A boy goes to tuition by bicycle at a speed of 10 km/hr and
becomes 15 min late. Next day he increases his speed by 2
km/hr and becomes 5 min late. What is the distance from
home to tuition?

(a) 10 km (b) 15 km

(c) 20 km (d) 30 km
By covering a distance
by 7/10th of his usual
speed, Ram gets late by
21 mins. What is his
usual time to cover the
distance?
(a) 21 min
(b) 42 min
(c) 49 min
(d) 55 min
 Concept of
Relative Speed
Trains
❑When a person passes another person/pole:

❑When a person passes train or vice versa:

❑When two trains cross/pass each other:

❑When a train passes a platform/bridge:

A thief steals a car at 1.30 pm and drives it off at 40 kmph. The
theft is discovered at 2 pm. The owner sets off in another car at 50
kmph. He will overtake the thief at:

(a) 4 pm (b) 4:30 pm (c) 5 pm (d) 6 pm

A train 150 m long is running at
68 kmph. In what time it will
pass a man who is running at 8
kmph in the same direction as
that of the train?

(a) 8 sec (b) 8.5 sec

(c) 9 sec (d) 9.5 sec

 Platform

A train of length 50 m passes

a platform of 100 m long in 10
sec. Find speed of the train in
kmph.

(a) 10 (b) 15

(c) 54 (d) 100

How many seconds will a
train of length 120 m
running at 36 kmph take to
cross a bridge of 360 m in
length?

(a) 36 sec (b) 40 sec

(c) 48 sec (d) 46 sec

 A B

Points A and B are 70 km apart on a highway. Two cars start from

A and B at same time. If they travel in same direction, they meet
in 7 hrs and if they travel in opposite directions, they meet in 1 hr.
Find speed of both cars (in kmph).

(a) 20, 30 (b) 30, 40

(c) 30, 50 (d) 50, 20

 In same Direction

Case
1

In opposite Direction
Case
2

Two trains 130m & 110m long. While going in same direction the faster train
takes 1 min. to overtake. If they are moving in opposite direction, they passes
each other completely in 3 sec. The speed of the train is:

(a) 42 m/s, 38 m/s (b) 38 m/s, 24 m/s

(c) 42 m/s, 24 m/s (d) None of the above

Two persons are walking in the same direction at the rate of 3 km/hr
and 6 km/hr. A train running from behind passes them in 9 sec. & 10
sec. resp. The speed of the train is:

(a) 22 km/hr

(b) 40 km/hr

(c) 33 km/hr

(d) 35 km/hr
A Distance = 590 km B
Chalukya Express Sahyadri Express
2:15 PM 1:35 PM
50 km/hr 60 km/hr

At what distance
from A will the two
trains meet?
(a) 200 km
(b) 300 km
(c) 250 km
(d) 225 km
A train covers 180 km distance in 4 hrs. Another train covers the same
distance in 1 hr less. What is the difference between the distance
covered by both the trains in 1 hr?

(a) 45 km

(b) 9 km

(c) 40 km

(d) None of these

When two trains running in the same direction @ 90 km/hr and 70
km/hr resp. Then the fastest train passes a man sitting in slower
train in 36 sec. Find the length of faster train.

(a) 70 m

(b) 600 m

(c) 120 m

(d) 200 m
A man in the train notices that he count 21 telephone posts in 1 min. If
they are known to be 50 m apart, then what is the speed of the train?

(a) 57 km/hr

(b) 60 km/hr

(c) 63 km/hr

(d) 55 km/hr
A train overtook two people who are walking in the same direction in
which the train is going, at the rate of 2 km/hr & 4 km/hr and
passes completely in 9 sec. & 10 sec. resp. The length of the train is:

(a) 72 m

(b) 54 m

(c) 50 m

(d) 45 m
Boats and Streams
By Prof. Ruturaj Hajare
 X= Speed of a boat
Y= Speed of water/stream/current
Sd= Downstream Speed
Su= Upstream Speed
Find the downstream time

X = 16 km/hr D=120 km
Y = 4 km/hr
Find the upstream time

X = 16 km/hr D=120 km
Y = 4 km/hr
 Speed of flowing water is also called as speed of current/Stream

Speed of boat
in still water

Speed of the
Stream or Water
Type 1
1) If speed of downstream is 18 km/hr and upstream
is 12 km/hr, then find the speed of boat in still
water and speed of current.
2) Downstream speed of a boat is 49 km/hr and
upstream speed of a boat is 21 km/hr. Find the speed
of a boat in still water and speed of water.

(a) (35, 14) km/hr

(b) (36, 15) km/hr

(c) (35, 15) km/hr

(d) (34, 14) km/hr

3) A man can swim 3 km/hr in still water. If the velocity of
the stream be 2 km/hr, the time taken by him to a place 10
km upstream and back is.

(a) 10 hr

(b) 15 hr

(c) 12 hr

(d) 8 hr
Type 2
4) Speed of boat in still water is 9 km/hr and speed of a
stream is 5 km/hr. If total time taken by a boat to go and
come back is 36 hrs. Find the length of the river.

(a) 56 km

(b) 106 km

(c) 108 km

(d) 112 km
5) The speed of the boat in still water is 15 km/hr and
speed of a stream is 5 km/hr. The boat takes 5 hours more
to come back than to go. What will be the length of the
river?

(a) 120 km

(b) 100 km

(c) 110 km

(d) 105 km
6) Length of a river is 8 km. Speed of a boat in still
water is 6 km/hr. The boat takes 3 hrs for upstream
and downstream. Find the speed of stream.

(a) 4 km/hr

(b) 5 km/hr

(c) 2 km/hr

(d) 3 km/hr
Type 3
7) A person goes 72 km upstream and downstream in 10 hrs. Time
taken to cover 3 km downstream is equal to time taken to cover 2 km
upstream. Find the speed of boat in still water and speed of current.

(a) 15, 12

(b) 12, 5

(c) 15, 3

(d) 10, 5
Type 4
8) The speed of the current is 5 km/hr. A motorboat
goes 10 km upstream and back again to starting point in
50 min. The speed (in kmph) of the motorboat in still
water is?

(a) 20 km/hr

(b) 25 km/hr

(c) 28 km/hr

(d) 30 km/hr
Type 5
9) A man can row 30 km downstream and return in a
total of 8 hrs. If the speed of the boat in still water is
four times the speed of the current, then the speed of
the current is?

(a) 2 km/hr

(b) 2.5 km/hr

(c) 3 km/hr

(d) 4 km/hr
10) A boat takes 26 hours for travelling downstream from point A to B and coming back to point C
midway between A and B. If the velocity of the stream is 4 km/hr and the speed of the boat in
still water is 10 km/hr, what is the distance between A and B?

(a) 42 km (b) 140 km

(c) 168 km (d) 144 km

Type 6
 1
12) A man can row 4 km/hr in
2

still water. If he takes 2 times

as long as to row a distance
upstream as to row the same
distance downstream, the speed
of the stream is ?
(a) 3 km/hr
(b) 2.5 km/hr
(c) 2 km/hr
(d) 1.5 km/hr
13) In a fixed time, a boy swims
double the distance along the
current that he swims against
the current. If the speed of the
current is 3 km/hr, the speed of
the boy in still water is?
(a) 3 km/hr
(b) 9 km/hr
(c) 12 km/hr
(d) 20 km/hr
14) A boy goes 6 km an hour in
still water, it takes thrice as
much time in going the same
distance against the current
comparison to direction of the
current. The speed of the
current is?
(a) 3 km/hr
(b) 9 km/hr
(c) 12 km/hr
(d) 20 km/hr
In a fight of 600km, an
aircraft was slowed down due
to bad weather. Its average
speed for the trip was reduced
by 200 km/hr and the time of
flight increased by 30 minutes.
Find the speed of a flight
(a) 400 km/hr
(b) 500 km/hr
(c) 600 km/hr
(d) 800 km/hr