CAT 2023

EXAM
Distance Time and Speed
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Distance = Speed X Time

QUES 1. A Train travels from Station A to B that are 450Kms apart. C is another station
between Station A and Station B such that ratio of the distance between A to C and C to B is
3 : 2. If the time taken by the train is same from Station A to C and Station C to B. Find the
speed of train from Station A to C if the total time taken by the train is equal to 6 hours.

DISTANCE

SPEED

TIME
 TYPE 1 QUESTIONS
DELAYED START INREASED SPEED EARLY ARRIVAL
QUES 2. For a certain journey, if a Car increases it’s speed from 14 Km/hr to 26 Km/hr,
it’s time reduces by 6 hours. Find the length of the journey.

A 145 𝐾𝑚

B 246 𝐾𝑚

C 182 𝐾𝑚

D 37 𝐾𝑚
QUES 3. A person goes to office daily by the same route and reach his office exactly on
time while traveling at the speed of 20 Km/hr. One day he left his home 24 minutes
later than usual time and hence realized that he has to drive at the speed of 25 Km/hr
to reach at the same time. Find the distance between his home to office.

A 10 𝐾𝑚

B 20 𝐾𝑚

C 30 𝐾𝑚

D 40 𝐾𝑚
QUES 4. A person goes to office daily by the same route and reach office at 10:00 am
traveling at the speed of 30 Km/hr. One day he left his home 12 minutes later than
usual time and hence he increased his speed by 66.67%. When he reached office he
realized he reached office at 9:48 am.
What should be his speed to reach exactly on routine time even after leaving late.

A 35 𝐾𝑚/ℎ𝑟

B 40 𝐾𝑚/ℎ𝑟

C 37.5 𝐾𝑚/ℎ𝑟

D 45 𝐾𝑚/ℎ𝑟
QUES 5. Leaving home at the same time, Amal reaches office at 10:15 am if he travels
at 8kmph, and at 9:40 am if he travels at 15kmph. Leaving home at 9:10 am, at what
speed, in kmph, must he travel so as to reach office exactly at 10:00 am?
CAT 2020 Slot 1

A 12

B 11

C 13

D 14
QUES 6. A journey of 300 Kms would have taken 3 hours less if the speed of the
journey would have been 5 Kms/hour greater. What was the speed of the journey?

A 15

B 20

C 25

D 30
TYPE 2 QUESTIONS
SPEED TIME RELATION
 If the Speed of Car becomes double. If the time of journey increase by 25%.

If the car decreased it’s speed by 1/6 times, then the time increases by 24 min. Find the original time.
Ques 7. Mr. X travels 6 Kms from point A to point B in one hour, then returns back
to point A along the same route at 24 Kms per hour. Mr. Y makes the same round
trip, but at twice X’s average speed. How many minutes does Y spend on his entire
journey ?

A 150 min
6 Kms/hour

B 75 min

24 Kms/hour
C 60 min

D 37.5 min
Ques 8. The engine of a car got jammed after 50 kms from his departure and
hence is speed reduced to 2/3rd of it’s initial speed. Thus the car reached 40
minutes late. Had the engine malfunctioned after 100 Kms from his departure, the
car would have taken 20 minute more only. Find the distance of the journey and
speed of the car.
Ques 9. Raj leaves his home every day on bike at 5:00 pm to bring his son back
from classes and reach home by 7:00 pm along with his son. One day the classes
got finished early at 5:00 pm , and the son grabbed a rickshaw towards his home.
Unknown about the circumstances, Raj left at regular time and met his son on the
way and returned home along with him 30 minutes before the usual time. Find the
speed of rickshaw if the speed of the bike is 60 Km/hr.
TYPE 3 QUESTIONS
STOPPING TIME
Ques 10. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a car is 48 km/h and including
stoppages it is 40 km/h. What is the stoppage time of the car (in minutes) per
hour ? If every stopping time was of 1 min, how many stops did he take every hour.

A 10 B 12 C 9 D 8
TYPE 4 QUESTIONS
LINEAR RACES
❖ A beats B by 50 m in a Race of 250 m.
QUES 11 . In a 200 m race, A can give a head start of 40 m to B and 80 m to C.
In the same race B can give C a head start of

A 40 m

B 50 m

C 60 m

D 80 m
QUES 12 . In a car race, car A beats car B by 45 km, car B beats car C by 50 km, and car
A beats car C by 90 km. The distance (in km) over which the race has been conducted
is

A 550

B 475

C 500

D 450
QUES 13 . In a car race, car A beats car B by 45 km, car B beats car C by 50 km, and car
A beats car C by 90 km. The distance (in km) over which the race has been conducted
is

A 550

B 475

C 500

D 450
❖ A beats B by 50 m in a Race of 250 m OR 25 sec.
QUES 14. A beats B by 240 m or 40 sec in a 600 m race. Find the speed of A and B.
If B beat C by 100 m. Find the Speed of C.
QUES 15 . In a race of 200 m, A gives the head start of 100m to B and thus looses the
race by 5 sec. What is the speed of Mr. A if the ratio of speed of A and B is 8 : 5 ?
 TYPE 4 QUESTIONS
Average Speed

DISTANCE 600 Km

SPEED 20 Km/hr 60 Km/hr

TIME 4 hour
 Constant Time

DISTANCE

SPEED 40 Km/hr 10 Km/hr

TIME 5 hours 5 hour

 Constant Speed

DISTANCE 40 Km 40 Km

SPEED 40 Km/hr 20 Km/hr

TIME
Ques 16. A car increases his speed by 5 Km/hr after every hour. If the average
speed of the car for 9 hours is 45 Km/hr. Find the speed of the car in the third
hour of the journey.

A 25Km/hr B 30 Km/hr C 35 Km/hr D Can’t be det.

QUES 17. One can use three different transports which move at 10, 20, and 30 kmph,
respectively. To reach from A to B, Amal took each mode of transport 1/3 of his total
journey time, while Bimal took each mode of transport 1/3 of the total distance. Find the
difference between the average speeds of both.
CAT 2019 Slot 2
20
A 𝐾𝑚𝑠/ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟
11

40
B 𝐾𝑚𝑠/ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟
11

60
C 𝐾𝑚𝑠/ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟
11

80
D 𝐾𝑚𝑠/ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟
11
 TYPE 6 QUESTIONS
BOATS AND STREAMS

5m/s

UPSTREAM
DOWNSTREAM
BOATS & STREAMS
1m/s
 BUILDING C O N C E P T S
5m/s
5m/s

1m/s 1m/s

DOWNSTREAM UPSTREAM
 BUILDING C O N C E P T S
• For same distance (upstream and downstream)

Ques 18. A motor boat has a speed of 5m/s while going downstream and 3 m/s
while going upstream.

❖ Find the speed of water and boat.

❖ Find the time boat will take in to cover 88 mtrs in still water.
❖ Find the time boat will take in to cover 65 mtrs downstream if the speed of water
is increased by 50% while speed of boat increases by 25%..
Ques 20. A Boat covers a certain distance upstream in 80 sec, while it covers the
same distance downstream in 48 sec. Find the time taken by the boat to cover the
same distance with twice it’s speed in the still water.
 BUILDING C O N C E P T S
• A motor boat travels 12 Km Downstream and 6 Km Upstream in 6 hours.

• If a boat takes a total of 8 hours to cover 3 km Downstream and 4 Km upstream.

Ques 20. A man travels by a motor boat down a river to his office and back.
With the speed of the river unchanged, if he doubles the speed of his motor boat, then
his total travel time gets reduced by 75%. The ratio of the original speed of the motor
boat to the speed of the river is: CAT 2017 Slot 1

A 6∶ 2

B 7∶2

C 2 5∶3

D 3∶ 2
Ques 21. A man travels by a motor boat down a river to his office and back.
With the speed of the river unchanged, if he doubles the speed of his motor boat, then
his total travel time gets reduced by 75%. The ratio of the original speed of the motor
boat to the speed of the river is: CAT 2017 Slot 1

A 6∶ 2
𝑉𝑏 𝑏 − 𝑘𝑤 2
=
B 7∶2 𝑉𝑤 𝑏 − 𝐾𝑏 2

C 2 5∶3

D 3∶ 2
Ques 22. A man travels by a motor boat down a river to his office and back.
With the speed of the river unchanged, if he triples the speed of his motor boat and the
speed of water gets double, then his total travel time gets doubled. The ratio of the
original speed of the motor boat to the speed of the river is: CAT 2017 Slot 1
TYPE 7 QUESTIONS
ESCALATORS AND STEPS
Ques 20. A Boat covers a certain distance upstream in 80 sec, while it covers the
same distance downstream in 48 sec. Find the time taken by the boat to cover the
same distance with twice it’s speed in the still water.

Ques 23. A man climbs a floor with right escalator in 80 sec, while it takes 48 sec with
the wrong escalator. Find the time taken by the boat to cover the same distance with
twice it’s speed if the escalator is stopped.
QUES 24 . Moody takes 30 seconds to finish riding an escalator if he walks on it at his
normal speed in the same direction. He takes 20 seconds to finish riding the escalator
if he walks at twice his normal speed in the same direction. If Moody decides to stand
still on the escalator, then the time, in seconds, needed to finish riding the escalator
is

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QUES 25 . Moody takes 15 seconds to finish riding an escalator if he walks on it in the
same direction. He takes 30 seconds to finish riding the escalator if he walks in the
opposite direction. Find the time he will take to climb the normal staircase with same
steps.

A 18 𝑠𝑒𝑐

B 20 𝑆𝑒𝑐

C 24 𝑠𝑒𝑐

D 25 𝑠𝑒𝑐
❖ Kamal takes 20 steps and 10 sec to ❖ Kamal takes 60 steps and 30 sec to
reach from 1st Floor to 2nd floor in the reach from 1st Floor to 2nd floor in
direction of escalator. the opposite direction of escalator.
QUES 26 . Harry takes 24 Steps and 10 sec to reach from 1st floor to 2nd floor
while Joseph takes 8 steps and 14 sec to reach from 1st floor to 2nd floor, both
moving in same direction with escalator. Find the number of steps visible when
the escalator is not moving.
QUES 27 . Karan and Arjun are climb up a floor on the right escalator. Karan takes 30
steps to reach the top but Arjun takes 36 steps to reach the top. Karan can take 2 steps
in a second while Arjun can take 4 steps in a second. Calculate the total number of steps
in the escalator.
 TYPE 8 QUESTIONS
TWO TRAINS

M O S T PREDICTABLE QUESTIONS
EPISODE - 1
 TYPE 9 QUESTIONS
RELATIVE SPEED

TYPE 10 QUESTIONS
TRAINS BRIDGES MEN

M O S T PREDICTABLE QUESTIONS
EPISODE - 5
TYPE 11 QUESTIONS
CIRCULAR TRACK
Meeting At Starting Point
T i m e C a l c u l a t i o n

A
Mr. Rohra starts running in a circular track of length
B
140m at a speed of 4 m/s.

Mr. Surana start running in a circular track of length

140m at a speed of 7 m/s.
QUES 28. A, B and C starts running in a concentric circular track as shown in the figure
such that A and B runs in Clockwise direction and C in anticlockwise Direction. If A runs at
a speed of 5m/s in the interior most track of 100 m, while C runs in the outermost track of
300 Km at a speed of 10m/s and B runs at the speed of 8 m/s on the empty track, find the
minutes after which they will be at the starting point together if the length of the track
forms and AP. C
B
A
QUES 29. Two circular tracks T1 and T2 of radii 100 m and 20 m, respectively touch at
a point A. Starting from A at the same time, Ram(A) and Rahim(B) are walking on track
T1 and track T2 at speeds 15 km/hr and 5 km/hr respectively. The number of full
rounds that Ram(A) will make before he meets Rahim(B) again for the first time is
CAT 2020 Slot 2

A 5

B 3
A B

C 4

D 2
Opposite Direction
F i r s t M e e t
A A A

B B B

L = 200m L = 200m L = 200m

200 Da = 𝑎𝑡 = 5 (25)
𝑡 = =
5+3 Db = 𝑏𝑡 = 3 (25)
QUES 30. Mr. Rohra and Mr. Surana start running in a circular track of length
220m at a speed of 4m/s and 7m/s respectively in clockwise and
anticlockwise direction.
▪ Find the time at which they meet if they started from the same point.
▪ Find where they will meet from the start measured in clockwise direction.
▪ How much more distance would Mr. Surana would have run when they
meet for the first time.
▪ How many times will they meet in 2 minutes.

A A

B B
SAME DIRECTION
F i r s t M e e t a t a n y p o i n t

A A A

B B B

L = 200m L = 200m L = 200m

200 Da = 𝑎𝑡 = 5 (100)
𝑡 = =
5−3 Db = 𝑏𝑡 = 3 (100)
QUES 31. Mr. Rohra and Mr. Surana start running in a circular track of length
6 Km at a speed of 5 Km/hr and 8 Km/hr respectively in clockwise direction.

▪ Find the time at which they meet if they both started running at 10:00 am
▪ Find where they will meet from the start measured in clockwise direction.

▪ How much more distance would Mr. Surana would have run when they
meet for the first time.
▪ How many times will they meet in 6 hours.

A A

B B
 QUES 32. Anil, Sunil, and Ravi run along a circular path of length 3 km,
starting from the same point at the same time, and going in the clockwise
direction. If they run at speeds of 15 km/hr, 10 km/hr, and 8 km/hr,
respectively, how much distance in km will Ravi have run when Anil and Sunil
meet again for the first time ?
CAT 2020 Slot 3

A 4.6
A R

S
B 4.2

C 4.8

D 5.2
• If A meets B in 10 mins if both running in the same direction.

• If A meets B in 30 mins if both running in the opposite direction.

• In 2 hours A covers 4 rounds/laps more than B in a circular track

• In 45 mins A covers as many rounds more than B as B Covers more than C in a circular
track
QUES 33. Mira and Amal walk along a circular track, starting from
the same point at the same time. If they walk in the same
direction, then in 45 minutes, Amal completes exactly 3 more
rounds than Mira. If they walk in opposite directions, then they
meet for the first time exactly after 3 minutes. The number of
rounds Mira walks in one hour is CAT 2021 Slot 3

A A

B B
QUES 34. Karan and Arjun starts running in a circular path of 300 Km starting
from the diagrammatically opposite ends with a speed of 20 and 10 km/hr
respectively. When will they meet for the first time if they

• Run in same direction

• Run in opposite direction

K K

A A
Meeting At Starting Point
N u m b e r o f M e e t i n g s

B B
A A
Same Direction Opposite Direction

𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 𝑚 ∶ 𝑛 𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 𝑚 ∶ 𝑛
𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 3 ∶ 2 𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 3 ∶ 2

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 = 𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 =

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠

= 𝑚−𝑛 = 𝑚+𝑛
Meeting At Starting Point
N u m b e r o f M e e t i n g s

Opposite Direction

𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 𝑚 ∶ 𝑛
𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 3 ∶ 2

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 Number of meeting points before meeting

= 𝑚+𝑛 at start for the first time =
Meeting At Starting Point
N u m b e r o f M e e t i n g s

B Same Direction Opposite Direction B

A A
𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 5 ∶ 3 𝑆𝑎 ∶ 𝑆𝑏 = 5 ∶ 3
𝐿 = 100 𝑚 𝐿 = 100 𝑚

𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 = 𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 =

Number of meeting points before meeting Number of meeting points before meeting
at start for the first time = at start for the first time =
QUES 35. Karan and Arjun moves in a circular path with a speed of 3 Km/hr
and 5 km/hr in opposite direction. If the track has a length of 24 Km.
▪ Find the number of unique meeting points.

▪ Find the number of meeting points before they meet at starting point
again for the first time.
▪ Find the consecutive distance between 2 successive meeting points.
▪ At what nearest distance from the start would be the 4th Meeting point
QUES 36. Karan and Arjun moves in a circular path with a speed of 9 Km/hr
and 5 km/hr in same direction. If the track has a length of 12 Km.
▪ Find the number of unique meeting points.
▪ Find the number of meeting points before they meet at starting point
again for the first time.
▪ Find the number of meeting points before they meet at starting point
again for the second time.
▪ Find the distance between 21st meeting point and 33rd meeting point.
▪ Find the distance between 12st meeting point and 19th meeting point.
TYPE 12 QUESTIONS
TO AND FRO
#Q. 37]. Mrs Juhi started walking towards a temple along with her daughter that is 15
Kms away from her home, She walks at a speed of 5 Km/hr while her daughter at 9
Km/hr. The daughter reaches the and turns back towards her mother, after meeting the
mother she again run back towards the temple. She continuously repeats this cycle till
her mother reaches the temple. Find
▪ The distance travelled by her daughter.
▪ The distance travelled by her daughter direction of temple.
▪ The distance travelled by her daughter in the direction of her mother.
#Q. 38]. A thief is running away at a speed of 60Km/hr, after receiving the information
about the same, a policeman started to chase him at a speed of 80 Km/hr after 2 hours
along with his dog who runs at a speed of 100 Km/hr. The dog reaches the thief and
turns back towards policeman, after meeting the policeman it again run towards the
thief. The dog continuously repeats this cylce till the policeman catch the thief. Find
▪ The distance travelled by dog.
▪ The distance travelled by dog in the direction of thief.
▪ The distance travelled by dog in the direction of police.
#Q. 39]. Two people A and B starts from opposite ends of a 130 m linear track at a
speed of 7m/s and 6m/s respectively. Both reaches the opposite ends and returns
back to their initial corner. They repeat this to and fro motion infinitely. Find

▪ The time after which they meet for 5th time.

▪ The Distance travelled by each of them when they meet for the 5th time.
▪ The Distance between the nearest corner and the 5th meeting point.

B
#Q. 40]. Two Trains X and Y started from A and B at the same time respectively towards
the other station. At first they met 40Kms away from B. As soon as the reached their
destination , they started the return journey. While returning they met at 30 Km from A.
Find the distance between A and B.

B
#Q. 41]. Two people A and B starts from same end of a 130 m linear track at a speed of
7m/s and 6m/s respectively. Both reaches the opposite ends and returns back to their
starting corner. They keep repeating this till they meet at the starting point again. Find

▪ The time after which they meet for 5th time.

▪ The Distance travelled by each of them when they meet for the 5th time.
▪ The Distance between the nearest corner and the 5th meeting point.

B
#Q. 42]. Two Trains X and Y started from Station A to Station B at the same time at a
constant speed of 30m/s and 25m/s respectively. They start the journey to A as soon as
the reaches B via same route. Find the number of times they will meet , if they continue
this to and fro motion for 10 hours and the distance between A and B is 100 Kms.