As per the latest pattern of the written exam there will be two papers in which paper 1 will be – Reasoning and Elementary Mathematics and Paper 2 will be General Knowledge and English.
Territorial Army Exam Mock Test Series
Top 10 TA 2 2017 Elementary Mathematics Time and Distance MCQs
| 1. An athlete runs 200 meters in 24 seconds. His speed is ? | ||
| a. 10 km/hr | ||
| b. 17 k/hr | ||
| c. 27 km/hr | ||
| d. 30 km/hr | ||
| 2. Excluding stoppages, the speed of a bus is 54 kmph and including stoppages, it is 45 kmph. For how many minutes does the bus stop per hour ? | ||
| a. 8 minutes | ||
| b. 10 minutes | ||
| c. 12 minutes | ||
| d. 14 minutes | ||
| 3. The distance between two cities A and B is 330 Km. A train starts from A at 8 a.m. and travel towards B at 60 km/hr. Another train starts from B at 9 a.m and travels towards A at 75 Km/hr. At what time do they meet? | ||
| a. 10 am | ||
| b. 11 am | ||
| c. 12 pm | ||
| d. 1 pm | ||
| 4. A thief is noticed by a policeman from a distance of 200 m. The thief starts running and the policeman chases him. The thief and the policeman run at the rate of 10 km and 11 km per hour respectively. What is the distance between them after 6 minutes ? | ||
| a. 50 meter | ||
| b. 100 meter | ||
| c. 110 meter | ||
| d. None of above | ||
| 5. Ram and Sham are running a race, Ram runs 25% faster than Sham and is able to allow Sham a lead of 7 meters to end a race in dead heat. Find the distance of the race. | ||
| a. 32 meters | ||
| b. 35 meters | ||
| c. 39 meters | ||
| d. 40.5 meters | ||
| 6. In a flight of 600 km, 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. The duration of the flight is: | ||
| a. 1 hour | ||
| b. 2 hours | ||
| c. 3 hours | ||
| d. 4 hours | ||
| 7. A man on tour travels first 160 km at 64 km/hr and the next 160 km at 80 km/hr. The average speed for the first 320 km of the tour is: | ||
| a. 35.55 km/hr | ||
| b. 36 km/hr | ||
| c. 71.11 km/hr | ||
| d. 71 km/hr | ||
| 8. It takes eight hours for a 600 km journey, if 120 km is done by train and the rest by car. It takes 20 minutes more, if 200 km is done by train and the rest by car. The ratio of the speed of the train to that of the cars is: | ||
| a. 2 : 3 | ||
| b. 3 : 2 | ||
| c. 3 : 4 | ||
| d. 4 : 3 | ||
| 9. A farmer travelled a distance of 61 km in 9 hours. He travelled partly on foot @ 4 km/hr and partly on bicycle @ 9 km/hr. The distance travelled on foot is: | ||
| a. 14 km | ||
| b. 15 km | ||
| c. 16 km | ||
| d. 17 km | ||
| 10. Two persons starting from the same place walk at a rate of 5kmph and 5.5kmph respectively. What time will they take to be 8.5km apart, if they walk in the same direction? | ||
| a. 17 hrs | ||
| b. 22 hrs | ||
| c. 25 hrs | ||
| d. 12 hrs | ||
