Motion: Speed, Distance, and Time 2

Mr. Walker goes to his office on foot. His house is 200 meters away from his workplace. He climbs up about 160 meters to reach his office. What is the total distance traveled by Mr. Walker?

Answer explanation

From his house, he traveled 200 meters and climbed up the stairs that is 160 meters to reach his office. So we add 200 meters and 160 meters to get the total distance traveled.

200 + 160 = 360 meters

The batter hit the ball 8 meters far away. If the ball was caught by a base player at that distance, and was thrown 9 meters towards the home base. What was the total distance transverse by the ball?

Avi and George walk everyday to go to school. How far is the school from their house?

Answer explanation

10 + 8 + 5 = 23 meters

Upon reaching school from their house, George realized that he needs to go to the Stationery shop to buy a magnet for his lesson in Science. What is the total distance traveled by George when he stopped at the stationery shop?

Answer explanation

George traveled 23 meters from their house going to school and he needs to go back to the stationery shop from his school with a distance of 5 meters. The total distance he traveled when he stopped to the shop is 28 meters.

A car travels 300 kilometers in 5 hours. What is the speed of the car?

Answer explanation

300 km divided by 5 hours = 60 km/h

A man was able to jog 12 kilometers in 3 hours. How fast did he jog?

• 0.25 km/h

• 4 km/h

• 12 km

• 3 h

Answer explanation

12 kilometers divided by 3 hours = 4 km/h

How many minutes are

there in 2 hours?

• 60 minutes

• 90 minutes

• 120 minutes

• 240 minutes

Answer explanation

1 hour is equal to 60 minutes

Matt usually runs at a speed of 3 m/s. How far can he go in five minutes?

• 15 meters

• 300 meters

• 900 meters

• 3 meters

Answer explanation

Given the speed at 3m/s and time at 5 minutes.

Convert minutes into seconds first.

1 minute = 60 seconds

5 x 60 = 300 seconds

Now, we compute for distance:

distance = speed x time

distance = 3 m/s x 300 s

distance = 900 meters

Adam covers 420 meters in 1 minute. What is his speed?

• 420 m/m

• 0.14 m/s

• 7 m/s

• 420 m/s

A truck driver travels 20 kilometers in 60 minutes. If he drove at a steady speed, how fast was he going?

• 0.33 km/m

• 20 km/h

• 0.05 km/h

• 1,200 km/m

Answer explanation

Convert minutes to hour becuase the correct standard unit for speed in terms of kilometer distance and time is km/h.

In getting the speed, we divide the distance by time