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This section includes 1801 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your General Aptitude knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 701. |
A passenger train departs from Delhi at 6 p.m. for Mumbai. At 9 p.m., an express train, whose average speed exceeds that of the passenger train by 15 km/hour leaves Mumbai for Delhi. Two trains met each other mid-route. At what time do they meet, given that the distance between the cities is 1080 km? |
| A. | 4 p.m. |
| B. | 2 p.m. |
| C. | 12 midnight |
| D. | 6 a.m. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 702. |
A car can finish a certain journey in 10 hours at a speed of 42 kmph. In order to cover the same distance in 7 hours, the speed of the car (km/h) must be increased by: |
| A. | 12 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 24 |
| Answer» D. 24 | |
| 703. |
A train travels the distance between two stations X km apart at speed of 60 km per hour for the onward journey and 90 km per hour on the return journey. What is the average speed of the train? |
| A. | 77 km/hr |
| B. | 76 km/hr |
| C. | 75 km/hr |
| D. | 72 km/hr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 704. |
A passenger train without stoppages runs at an average speed of 75 km/h, and with stoppages, at an average speed of 60 km/h. What is the total time (in hours) taken by the train for stoppages on a route of length 600 km? |
| A. | 2 |
| B. | 4 |
| C. | 3 |
| D. | 1 |
| Answer» B. 4 | |
| 705. |
A boat travel 18 km upstream and 14 km downstream in 4 hours. It travels 3 km upstream and \(10\frac{1}{2}km\) downstream in \(1\frac{1}{4}\) hours. What is the speed (in km/h) of the stream? |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | \(4\frac{1}{2}\) |
| C. | \(5\frac{1}{2}\) |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 706. |
A train starts from A at 6 AM and reaches B at 11 AM on the same day. Another train starts from B at 8 AM and reaches A at 3 PM on the same day. At what time the two trains will have crossed each other? |
| A. | 7:45 AM |
| B. | 10:30 AM |
| C. | 8:45 AM |
| D. | 9:45 AM |
| Answer» E. | |
| 707. |
A passenger train takes 1 hour less for a journey of 120 km, if its speed is increased by 10 km/hour from its usual speed. What is its usual speed? |
| A. | 50 km/hour |
| B. | 40 km/hour |
| C. | 35 km/hour |
| D. | 30 km/hour |
| Answer» E. | |
| 708. |
A and B start moving from places X and Y and Y to X, respectively, at the same time on the same day. After crossing each other. A and B take \(5 \frac{4}{9}\) hours and 9 hours, respectively, to reach their respective destinations. If the speed of A is 33 km/h, then then speed (in km/h) of B is: |
| A. | 22 |
| B. | \(24 \frac{1}{3}\) |
| C. | 2 |
| D. | \(25 \frac{2}{3}\) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 709. |
A train is moving at the speed of 72 km/hr. How many seconds will it take to cover a distance of 1400 m? |
| A. | 70 |
| B. | 80 |
| C. | 72 |
| D. | 84 |
| Answer» B. 80 | |
| 710. |
A train takes 45 minutes to cover a certain distance at a speed of 80 km/h. If the speed is increased by 125%, then how long will it take the train to cover 8/5 of the same distance ? |
| A. | 32 minutes |
| B. | 28 minutes |
| C. | 25 minutes |
| D. | 30 minutes |
| Answer» B. 28 minutes | |
| 711. |
A train starts with some number of passengers. At the first station, one third of the passengers get down from the train and 280 passengers get into the train. At the second station, half of the passengers get down and 12 passengers get in. Now, the number of passengers in the train is 248. The number of passengers in the train at the beginning is: |
| A. | 192 |
| B. | 288 |
| C. | 324 |
| D. | 376 |
| Answer» C. 324 | |
| 712. |
Mrs. Vijaya takes a total of 9 hours 50 minutes in walking a distance and running back to same place where she started. She could walk both ways in 12 hrs 20 minutes. The time taken by her to run both ways is: |
| A. | 7 hours 45 min |
| B. | 7 hours 35 min |
| C. | 7 hours 15 min |
| D. | 7 hours 20 min |
| Answer» E. | |
| 713. |
An object travels 10 m in 4 s and then another 14 m in 2 s. What is the average speed of the object? |
| A. | 4.5 ms-1 |
| B. | 4 m |
| C. | 4 s-1 |
| D. | 4 ms-1 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 714. |
A boat goes 2 km upstream and 3 km downstream in 20 minutes. Later it goes 7 km upstream and 2 km downstream in 53 minutes. What is speed (in km/h) of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 75/7 |
| B. | 120/7 |
| C. | 135/7 |
| D. | 150/7 |
| Answer» D. 150/7 | |
| 715. |
Raman goes to a place at a speed of 6 km/hr and returns back at 12 km/hr. What is his average speed (in km/hr)? |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 12 |
| C. | 8 |
| D. | 16 |
| Answer» D. 16 | |
| 716. |
A car travels a certain distance at 24 km/h and comes back at 36 km/h. Find the average speed for the total journey. |
| A. | 28.8 km/hr |
| B. | 30 km/hr |
| C. | 27.6 km/hr |
| D. | 31.2 km/hr |
| Answer» B. 30 km/hr | |
| 717. |
Pihu and Aayu are running on a circular track of diameter 28 m. Speed of Pihu is 48 m/s and that of Aayu is 40 m/s. They start from the same point at the same time in the same direction. When will they meet again for the first time? |
| A. | 8 seconds |
| B. | 11 seconds |
| C. | 13 seconds |
| D. | 14 seconds |
| Answer» C. 13 seconds | |
| 718. |
A woman travelling at 130% of her usual speed reached her office 12 minute early. Her usual time to cover the journey is: |
| A. | 0.87 hr |
| B. | 0.48 hr |
| C. | 2 hrs |
| D. | 1 hr |
| Answer» B. 0.48 hr | |
| 719. |
A person covered a distance of 250 km at a certain speed. If his speed is 20% less, he would have covered the same distance in \(1\frac{1}{4}\) hours less time. His speed (in km/hr), initially was: |
| A. | 45 |
| B. | 50 |
| C. | 52\(\frac{1}{2}\) |
| D. | 47\(\frac{1}{2}\) |
| Answer» C. 52\(\frac{1}{2}\) | |
| 720. |
A man in a train notices that he can count 31 telephone poles in one minute. If the poles are at equal intervals of 50 m, what is the speed of the train? |
| A. | 50 km/hour |
| B. | 60 km/hour |
| C. | 80 km/hour |
| D. | 90 km/hour |
| Answer» E. | |
| 721. |
A train is moving at a speed of 84 km/hr and covers a certain distance in 12 hours. If the same distance is to be covered in 14 hours, then what will be the speed (in km/hr) of the train? |
| A. | 72 |
| B. | 76 |
| C. | 66 |
| D. | 60 |
| Answer» B. 76 | |
| 722. |
A thief is 400 m ahead of a policeman. The thief started running and policemen started chasing simultaneously. Assuming the speed of thief be 10 km/h & policemen be 15 km/h, calculate the distance (in metres) covered by the thief before the policemen caught the thief?A. 750 mB. 800 mC. 850 mD. 900 m |
| A. | B |
| B. | C |
| C. | D |
| D. | A |
| Answer» B. C | |
| 723. |
A goes to office at a speed of 10 km/hr and returns home at 40 km/hr. What is his average speed (in km/hr)? |
| A. | 16 |
| B. | 24 |
| C. | 25 |
| D. | 32 |
| Answer» B. 24 | |
| 724. |
If P travelled the first half of a journey at 40 km/hr and the remaining distance at 50 km/hr, what is the average speed of his travel?A. 44.44 km/hrB. 53.33 km/hrC. 45 km/hrD. 60 km/hr |
| A. | D |
| B. | A |
| C. | C |
| D. | B |
| Answer» C. C | |
| 725. |
A boat takes 2 hours more to travel 45 km upstream than to travel the same distance downstream. If the ratio of the speed of current to the speed of boat is 1 ∶ 4, then find the speed of the current. |
| A. | 5 km/hr |
| B. | 9 km/hr |
| C. | 4 km/hr |
| D. | 6 km/hr |
| E. | none of these |
| Answer» F. | |
| 726. |
A train of length 180 metres crosses a tree in 15 seconds and crosses another train of the same length travelling in opposite direction in 20 seconds. What is the speed (in km/hr) of the second train? |
| A. | 21.6 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 33.4 |
| D. | 36.6 |
| Answer» B. 6 | |
| 727. |
A man starts off a journey. He travelled for 16 hours in total. First half of the distance was covered at 40 km/h and the second half at 60 km/h. What was the distance covered? |
| A. | 768 km |
| B. | 576 km |
| C. | 384 km |
| D. | 960 km |
| Answer» B. 576 km | |
| 728. |
A man travelled a certain distance by car and covered half of his journey. Out of the remaining distance, five-sixths was travelled in a van and the rest by auto. If the distance covered by auto was 5 km, what was the distance he travelled in total? |
| A. | 60 km |
| B. | 45 km |
| C. | 72 km |
| D. | 48 km |
| Answer» B. 45 km | |
| 729. |
A 230 m long train cross a 770 m long bridge in 40 seconds. What is the speed of the train? |
| A. | 80 km/h |
| B. | 85 km/h |
| C. | 75 km/h |
| D. | 90 km/h |
| Answer» E. | |
| 730. |
A train 150 metres long is running at a speed of 15 metres per second. In how much time (in seconds) it will cross a bridge of 300 metre long? |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 15 |
| C. | 30 |
| D. | 45 |
| Answer» D. 45 | |
| 731. |
A 450 meter long train crosses a bridge 650 meters long in 36 seconds. What is speed (in km/hr) of the train? |
| A. | 110 |
| B. | 125 |
| C. | 150 |
| D. | 95 |
| Answer» B. 125 | |
| 732. |
A train of length 218 m is running at 60 km/h. In what time (in seconds) will it cross a platform of length 282 m? |
| A. | 30 |
| B. | 32 |
| C. | 40 |
| D. | 36 |
| Answer» B. 32 | |
| 733. |
A person travelled 120 km by steamer, 450 km by train and 60 km by horse. It took him 13 hours 30 minutes. If the speed of the train is 3 times that of the horse and 1.5 times that of the steamer, then what is the speed (in km/h) of the steamer? |
| A. | 40 |
| B. | 20 |
| C. | 30 |
| D. | 60 |
| Answer» B. 20 | |
| 734. |
A person travels one-third of his journey at a speed of 40 km/h, the next one-third at a speed of 30 km/h, and the remaining part at a speed of 15 km/h. If his average speed in the entire journey was x km/h, then how much time (in hours) would he take to cover a distance of 144 km at an average speed of x km/h? |
| A. | \(5\dfrac{1}{2}\) |
| B. | 8 |
| C. | \(6\dfrac{1}{2}\) |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 735. |
A body travels from A to B in 10s with a speed of 50 km/h and returns with a speed of 100 km/h in 5s. The average speed and the average velocity for the whole journey is |
| A. | 17.5 m/s - 1, 0 km/h |
| B. | 16.5 m/s - 1, 0 km/h |
| C. | 15.5 m/s - 1, 0 km/h |
| D. | 18.5 m/s - 1, 0 km/h |
| Answer» E. | |
| 736. |
Kiran swims in a 90 m long pool. She covers 360 m in two minutes by swimming from one end to the other and back along the same straight path, twice. Find the average speed of Kiran. |
| A. | 4 ms-1 |
| B. | 6 ms-1 |
| C. | 3 ms-1 |
| D. | 5 ms-1 |
| Answer» D. 5 ms-1 | |
| 737. |
A train, 240 m in length and running at a speed of 72 kmph crosses a tunnel in one minute. What is the length of the tunnel? |
| A. | 780 m |
| B. | 820 m |
| C. | 960 m |
| D. | 1000 m |
| Answer» D. 1000 m | |
| 738. |
A boat travels 16 km downstream in 4 hours and 12 km upstream in 6 hours. What is the speed (in km/hr) of boat in still water? |
| A. | 1 |
| B. | 2 |
| C. | 3 |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» D. 4 | |
| 739. |
A bus travels at a speed of 50 km/h for 12 minutes & then at a speed of 40 km/h for the next 18 minutes. Total distance covered by the bus during this time is - |
| A. | 20 km |
| B. | 22 km |
| C. | 24 km |
| D. | 28 km |
| Answer» C. 24 km | |
| 740. |
A train covers a distance of 10 km in 12 min. If its speed is decreased by 10 km/h, then the time taken by the train to cover the same distance will be |
| A. | 16 min |
| B. | 18 min |
| C. | 14 min |
| D. | 15 min |
| Answer» E. | |
| 741. |
A boatman rows to a place 45 km away and back in 20 hours. He finds that he can row 15 km with the stream in the same time as 5 km against the stream. Find the speed of the stream. |
| A. | 5 km/h |
| B. | 4 km/h |
| C. | 3 km/h |
| D. | 2 km/h |
| Answer» D. 2 km/h | |
| 742. |
A train running at a speed of 60 km/hr takes 24 sec to pass a tunnel. Also,it takes 15 sec to pass a man walking at 6 km/hr in the same direction in which the train is going. Find the length of the train and the length of the tunnel. |
| A. | 200 m and 230 m |
| B. | 225 m and 175 m |
| C. | 225 m and 150 m |
| D. | 180 m and 150 m |
| Answer» C. 225 m and 150 m | |
| 743. |
Neeraj covers two distances of 10 km and 20 km in 1 hour and 5 hours respectively. What will be the average speed of Neeraj for the whole journey? |
| A. | 4 km/hour |
| B. | 7 km/hour |
| C. | 5 km/hour |
| D. | 6 km/hour |
| Answer» D. 6 km/hour | |
| 744. |
A swimmer covers a distance 20 km against the current and 30 km in the direction of current. If in each case he takes 5 hours, then the speed of the current is |
| A. | 1 km/hr |
| B. | 2 km/hr |
| C. | 3 km/hr |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. 2 km/hr | |
| 745. |
A train 180 m long moving at the speed of 20 m/sec passes across a boy who is moving at a speed of 10 m/sec in the direction of the train. The time (in s) taken by the train to overtake the boy is: |
| A. | 15 |
| B. | 36 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 12 |
| Answer» D. 12 | |
| 746. |
A person rows a distance of 20 km upstream and 15 km downstream in a total time of \(2 \frac{5}{12}\) hours. If the speed of the current is 4 km/h, then in how many hours can he row a distance of 64 km upstream? |
| A. | \(5 \frac{1}{3}\) |
| B. | \(4\frac{2}{3}\) |
| C. | \(5\frac{1}{2}\) |
| D. | \(4\frac{1}{4}\) |
| Answer» B. \(4\frac{2}{3}\) | |
| 747. |
A boat cover row 12 km upstream in 4 hours and can cover the same distance downstream in 3 hours. What is the speed (in km/hr) of the boat in still water? |
| A. | 3.5 |
| B. | 3 |
| C. | 2.5 |
| D. | 2 |
| Answer» B. 3 | |
| 748. |
A train crosses a platform and a tunnel in 18 and 32 seconds respectively. The speed of the train and length of the train are 45 km/hr and 140 metres respectively. Find that the length of the platform is approximately what percent less than the length of tunnel? |
| A. | 72% |
| B. | 67% |
| C. | 82% |
| D. | 61% |
| E. | 51% |
| Answer» C. 82% | |
| 749. |
One of the two buses completes a journey of 340 km in \(8\frac{1}{2}\) hours and the other a journey of 500 km in 10 hours. What is the ratio of their average speeds? |
| A. | 2 : 3 |
| B. | 3 : 2 |
| C. | 4 : 5 |
| D. | 5 : 5 |
| Answer» D. 5 : 5 | |
| 750. |
A person covers the same distance at 3 km/h, 4 km/h, 7 km/h and 12 km/h and it takes a total of 340 minutes to cover this distance. What is the total distance (in km) covered by him? |
| A. | 45 km |
| B. | 25 km |
| C. | 28 km |
| D. | 50 km |
| Answer» D. 50 km | |