Distance, Time, Speed Practice Problems

If a car travels 400 meters in 20 seconds how fast is it going?

• 8000 m/s

• 20 m/s

• 420 m/s

• 380 m/s

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

If you move 50 meters in 10 seconds, what is your speed?

• 5 m/s

• 500 m/s

• 500 meters

• 5 mph

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You arrive in my class 45 seconds after leaving math which is 90 meters away. How fast did you travel?

• 2 m/s

• 2 mph

• .5 m/s

• 4,050 m/s

A plane travels 395,000 meters in 9000 seconds. What was its speed?

• 43.9 m/s

• 43.9 mph

• 55 m/s

• 55 mph

It takes Serina 0.25 hours to drive to school. Her route is 16 km long. What is Serina’s average speed on her drive to school?

• 64 km/h

• 64 mph

• 4 km/h

• 4 mph

How much time will it take for a bug to travel 5 meters across the floor if it is traveling at 1 m/s?

• 5 seconds

• 5 minutes

• 5 m/s

• .2 seconds

You need to get to class, 200 meters away, and you can only walk in the hallways at about 1.5 m/s. (if you run any faster, you’ll get a strike for running). How much time will it take you to get to class?

• 133.3 seconds

• 133.3 meters

• 300 seconds

• 300 meters

In a competition, an athlete threw a flying disk 139 meters through the air. While in flight, the disk traveled at an average speed of 13.0 m/s. How long did the disk remain in the air?

• 10.7 seconds

• 10.7 meters

• 1,807 seconds

• 1,807 meters

How far can you get away from your little brother with the squirt gun filled with paint if you can travel at 3 m/s

and you have 15 seconds before he sees you?

• 45 meters

• 45 m/s

• 5 meters

• 5 m/s

How far can your little brother get if he can travel at 2.5 m/s and in 5 seconds you will discover that his squirt

gun has run out of paint?

• 12.5 meters

• 12.5 m/s

• 2 meters

• 0.5 meters