{"id":152758,"date":"2023-07-27T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T06:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=152758"},"modified":"2023-07-27T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T06:49:41","slug":"in-a-kilometer-race-a-beats-b-by-40-meters-or-by-5-seconds-what-is-the-time-taken-by-a-over-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/in-a-kilometer-race-a-beats-b-by-40-meters-or-by-5-seconds-what-is-the-time-taken-by-a-over-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"In a kilometer race, A beats B by 40 meters or by 5 seconds. What is the time taken by A over the course?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Question<\/td>In a kilometer race, A beats B by 40 meters or by 5 seconds. What is the time taken by A over the course?<\/td><\/tr>
Type<\/td>multiple_choice<\/td><\/tr>
Option<\/td>1 minute 57 seconds.<\/td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr>
Option<\/td>2 minutes.<\/td>correct<\/td><\/tr>
Option<\/td>1.5 minutes.<\/td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr>
Option<\/td>None of these.<\/td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr>
Solution<\/td>A runs 1km = 1000 m, it means B runs 1000 – 40 = 960 meters
Time is taken by B for 40 meters = 5 seconds
Time is taken by B for 960 meters =\u00a05\/40 \u00d7 960=120 seconds The time in which B covered 960 meters, A has covered 1000 meters.
\u2234 A’s time over the course = 120 seconds
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0= 2 minutes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question In a kilometer race, A beats B by 40 meters or by 5 seconds. What is the time taken by A over the course? Type multiple_choice Option 1 minute 57 seconds. incorrect Option 2 minutes. correct Option 1.5 minutes. incorrect Option None of these. incorrect Solution A runs 1km = 1000 m, it means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":152763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"class_list":["post-152758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152764,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152758\/revisions\/152764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}