Average speed over successive stretches covered at different speeds
This type of question, asked 7 times: 28 Jun 2022, 25 Jan 2023, 30 Jan 2023, 1 Feb 2023, 10 Apr 2023, 9 Apr 2024, 2 Apr 2025. All 8 questions below, oldest first.
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Question 1
28 Jun 2022
120
A car covers AB distance with first one-third at velocity v1ms−1, second one-third at v2ms−1 and last one-third at v3ms−1. If v3=3v1,v2=2v1 and v1=11ms−1 then the average velocity of the car is ____ms−1.
Question 2
25 Jan 2023
10
A car travels a distance of ' x ' with speed v1 and then same distance ' x ' with speed v2 in the same direction. The average speed of the car is:
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Question 3
30 Jan 2023
23
A horse rider covers half the distance with 5m/s speed. The remaining part of the distance was travelled with speed 10m/s for half the time and with speed 15m/s for other half of the time. The mean speed of the rider averaged over the whole time of motion is 7xm/s. The value of x is
Question 4
30 Jan 2023
96
A vehicle travels 4km with speed of 3km/h and another 4km with speed of 5km/h, then its average speed is
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Question 5
1 Feb 2023
9
An object moves with speed v1,v2 and v3 along a line segment AB,BC and CD respectively as shown in figure. Where AB=BC and AD=3AB, then average speed of the object will be:
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Question 6
10 Apr 2023
91
A person travels x distance with velocity v1 and then x distance with velocity v2 in the same direction. The average velocity of the person is v, then the relation between v,v1 and v2 will be:
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Question 7
9 Apr 2024
2
A particle moving in a straight line covers half the distance with speed 6m/s. The other half is covered in two equal time intervals with speeds 9 m/s and 15m/s respectively. The average speed of the particle during the motion is:
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Question 8
2 Apr 2025
25
A person travelling on a straight line moves with a uniform velocity v1 for a distance x and with a uniform velocity v2 for the next 23x distance. The average velocity in this motion is 750m/s. If v1 is 5m/s then v2=____m/s.