CAT Time Speed and Distance — practice questions
22 free MCQs with worked solutions. Tap any question for the answer + explanation, or practice them all in the app.
Practice CAT Time Speed and Distance in the app →Pete can paint a room in 10 hours. Working steadily, how much of the room does he paint in one hour?Alicia would take 8 hours to paint the same room alone. Her share of the job in one hour is:Pete needs 10 hours and Alicia 8 hours for the same room. Together their hourly share of the job is:Working together at those rates, Pete and Alicia paint the room in about:One gardener mows a golf course in 4 hours and another takes 6 hours. Together they finish in:Carrie can weed the garden in 7 hours and her mother in 3 hours. Together they take:Tom paints the den in 45 minutes and Bobby in 60 minutes. Together they need about:A job on Press #1 takes 6 hours. In one hour that press completes:With both presses running the job takes 4 hours. Press #1 alone takes 6 hours, so Press #2 alone takes:Corey shovels the snow in 4 hours. With his twin Casey they finish in 2 hours, so Casey alone would take:Two workers finish a job in exactly the same time each. If one alone takes 8 hours, together they take:Judy pilots her powerboat 5 miles into a 7 mph wind in the time she covers 12 miles with a 7 mph tailwind. HerHamilton rides 12 miles downhill, then back uphill at 8 mph slower, taking 2 hours longer. His downhill speed On that same ride, Hamilton's uphill speed works out to:Tony drives 4 hours in all, 208 miles on the interstate and 40 on country roads, going 15 mph faster on the inOn that drive, Tony's interstate speed was:A plane's ground speed with a tailwind of 30 mph, if the plane itself flies at 150 mph, is:Flying into that same 30 mph wind, the same plane's ground speed would be:In work problems, the parts of the job done by each worker in one hour add up to:Converting two fifths of an hour into minutes gives:A worker finishing in 5 hours and another in 20 hours together do what share of the job each hour?Those two workers, at that combined rate, finish the whole job in: