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Time, speed and distance

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A train $250$ m long runs at $90$ km/h. How many seconds does it take to cross a pole?
A motorboat travels $36 km$ upstream and $48 km$ downstream in $9$ hours. It can also travel $27 km$ upstream and $72 km$ downstream in $9$ hours. What is the speed of the…
A man travels a certain distance at $80$ km/h and returns the same way at $120$ km/h. What is his average speed for the whole trip (in km/h)?
A man travels a certain distance at $40$ km/h and returns the same way at $60$ km/h. What is his average speed for the whole trip (in km/h)?
A man travels a certain distance at $60$ km/h and returns the same way at $90$ km/h. What is his average speed for the whole trip (in km/h)?
A man travels a certain distance at $45$ km/h and returns the same way at $90$ km/h. What is his average speed for the whole trip (in km/h)?
A man travels a certain distance at $20$ km/h and returns the same way at $30$ km/h. What is his average speed for the whole trip (in km/h)?
A train $240$ m long runs at $72$ km/h. How many seconds does it take to cross a pole?
A train $400$ m long runs at $72$ km/h. How many seconds does it take to cross a pole?
A superfast train travelling at 90 km/h crosses a 350-metre-long railway platform in 22 seconds. What is the length of the train?
Two goods trains of lengths 180 m and 220 m are running on parallel tracks in opposite directions with speeds of 42 km/h and 48 km/h respectively. In how many seconds will they pass each other complet…
A passenger train leaves a station at 60 km/h. Two hours later, an express train leaves from the same station on the same track at 80 km/h. At what distance from the station will the express train ove…
Without stoppages, an express train travels at an average speed of 75 km/h, and with stoppages, it travels at an average speed of 60 km/h. For how many minutes per hour does the train stop on average?

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