Distance Problems (2)( Week 48 Practice) 1. The length of a train is 192 meters. It is driven at the speed of 24 meters per second. How many seconds will it take for the train to pass a 168-meter long tunnel (from entering to completely exiting from the tunnel)? 2. Morgan starts out at the starting point of a trail at 4 meters per second, and 8 seconds later Richard starts out at the same point at the speed of 6 meters per second. In how many seconds will Richard catch up with Morgan? 3. Josh and Morgan start together and race their bikes around a circular trial at constant speeds. It will take Josh 6 minutes to go 1 lap, and it will take Morgan 4 minutes for a lap. How long will it take Morgan to be exactly 1 lap ahead of Josh (in minutes)? 4. The length of a bridge is 1165 meters. A train crossed the bridge at 450 meters per minute. It took the train 3.7 minutes to cross the bridge (from entering to completely exiting the bridge). What is the length of the train in meters? 5. George drove his car at 42 mph for the same number of hours as that Kevin drove his car at 33 mph. If George ended up driving 36 miles more than Kevin, how many hours did they drive? |