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SNAP Time, Speed, Distance and Work Questions
Time, Speed and Distance and Time and Work are among the most frequently tested arithmetic topics in the SNAP Quantitative, Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency section. Under the SNAP 2026 pattern, this section has 20 of the paper's 60 questions, and the full test runs for 60 minutes with no sectional time limit. These topics usually account for 2 to 3 questions directly. Since SNAP deducts 0.25 marks for every wrong answer, accuracy matters as much as speed.
Most SNAP Time, Speed and Distance questions rest on one idea: Distance = Speed × Time, with all three quantities in matching units. Time and Work questions add another: work done = rate × time, where the rate is the fraction of the job finished per day or per hour. Standard patterns include average speed, relative speed, trains crossing poles, platforms and other trains, boats and streams, races and circular tracks, people working together, efficiency comparisons, pipes and cisterns, and wages shared in proportion to work done.
SNAP gives you roughly one minute per question across the paper, so there is no time to build long equations from scratch. A quick, confident approach to core arithmetic topics like these leaves you more time for Data Interpretation sets and the trickier Reasoning questions. These concepts also connect closely with Ratio and Proportion, so the time you invest here pays off across the Quant section.
Try to solve 10 to 15 Time, Speed, Distance and Work questions daily. Mix direct speed questions, relative speed and train questions, boats and streams questions, work and efficiency questions, pipes and cisterns questions and Data Sufficiency questions to build the pattern recognition you need to finish the section on time.
SNAP Time, Speed, Distance and Work Questions PDF
A single SNAP Time, Speed, Distance and Work Questions PDF lets you practise every important pattern in one place instead of searching through books and websites. It also makes last-minute revision quick, since the formulas, unit conversions, shortcut results and solved examples sit together.
This PDF covers basic speed and unit conversion, average speed, relative speed, trains, boats and streams, races and circular tracks, meeting-point problems, work done together, the LCM method, efficiency and man-days, alternate-day work, pipes and cisterns, wages shared by work done, and a SNAP-style Data Sufficiency question. Every question comes with a step-by-step solution so you can check both your answer and your method.
Solve the questions in a timed setting, aiming for about 1 minute per question. After each set, go through the solutions and note where the LCM method, a speed ratio or a 5/18 conversion could have saved time. Revisit the questions you got wrong after a few days to make sure the concept has stuck, and keep a count of wrong attempts, since each one costs you 0.25 marks in SNAP.
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How to Solve SNAP Time, Speed, Distance and Work Questions
Here are some methods that can help you solve SNAP Time, Speed, Distance and Work questions quickly and accurately:
Always match the units first: Most errors come from mixing km/h with metres and seconds. Before calculating, convert everything to one system. To change km/h to m/s, multiply by 5/18; to change m/s to km/h, multiply by 18/5. For example, 72 km/h = 72 × 5/18 = 20 m/s.
Take total work as the LCM: Fractions slow you down in work questions. If A finishes a job in 12 days and B in 18 days, take the total work as LCM (12, 18) = 36 units. A does 3 units a day and B does 2, so together they do 5 units a day and finish in 36 ÷ 5 = 7.2 days. Memorise the common conversions:
- 36 km/h = 10 m/s, 54 km/h = 15 m/s, 72 km/h = 20 m/s, 90 km/h = 25 m/s, 108 km/h = 30 m/s
- 1 hour = 60 minutes = 3,600 seconds; 1 km = 1,000 m
- Half the work in 6 days means the full work in 12 days; a pipe filling 1/8 per hour fills the tank in 8 hours
Use ratios instead of equations: When distance is fixed, speed and time are inversely proportional. If speeds are in the ratio 3 : 4, times taken are in the ratio 4 : 3. In the same way, when the work is fixed, efficiency and time are inversely proportional.
Treat a team as one combined rate: Add the rates of people or pipes working together, and subtract the rate of anyone undoing the work, such as a leak or an outlet pipe. The question then reduces to dividing the total work by the net rate.
Learn the key results by heart:
- Speed = Distance ÷ Time; Time = Distance ÷ Speed
- Average speed = Total distance ÷ Total time (never the simple average of speeds)
- Average speed for equal distances at x and y = 2xy ÷ (x + y)
- Relative speed: subtract the speeds when moving in the same direction, add them when moving in opposite directions
- Time for a train to cross a pole or a person = Length of train ÷ Speed
- Time for a train to cross a platform or bridge = (Length of train + Length of platform) ÷ Speed
- Time for two trains to cross each other = (Sum of their lengths) ÷ Relative speed
- If two objects start towards each other and take a and b hours to reach their destinations after meeting, their speeds are in the ratio √b : √a
- Downstream speed = Boat speed + Stream speed; Upstream speed = Boat speed − Stream speed
- Boat speed = (Downstream + Upstream) ÷ 2; Stream speed = (Downstream − Upstream) ÷ 2
- If A beats B by x metres in a race of L metres, their speeds are in the ratio L : (L − x)
- On a circular track of length L, two runners at speeds a and b first meet after L ÷ (a + b) in opposite directions and L ÷ (a − b) in the same direction
- If A does a job in a days and B in b days, together they take ab ÷ (a + b) days
- If A is r% more efficient than B, the time taken by A and B is in the ratio 100 : (100 + r)
- M1 × D1 × H1 ÷ W1 = M2 × D2 × H2 ÷ W2 (men, days, hours per day and work)
- If one pipe fills a tank in a hours and another empties it in b hours, together they fill it in ab ÷ (b − a) hours (when b > a)
- Wages for a shared job are divided in the ratio of the work each person does
Use the average speed shortcut: A car going at 40 km/h one way and 60 km/h back has an average speed of 2 × 40 × 60 ÷ (40 + 60) = 48 km/h, not 50 km/h. This works for any trip split into equal distances.
Eliminate options using the units and ratios: If two speeds are in the ratio 3 : 5 and the answer is a total distance covered in equal time, it must be a multiple of 8. Use checks like this to strike out options before you calculate.
Assume a convenient value when none is given: If a question only gives ratios or percentages, take the distance or the total work as the LCM of the given numbers. It keeps every step in whole numbers.
Guess carefully under negative marking: Each wrong answer costs 0.25 marks. If you can eliminate two of the four options, a guess between the remaining two is worth taking on average; if you cannot narrow it down at all, move on and return later.
For Data Sufficiency, do not solve fully: You only need to know whether a unique answer exists. A speed ratio alone never gives actual speeds, so check whether a statement supplies at least one real distance, time or speed.
Question 1
3 men and 18 women together take 2 days to complete a piece of work. How many days will 9 women alone take to complete the piece of work; if 6 men alone can complete the piece of work in 3 days?
correct answer:- 2
Question 2
A train travelling at 48 km/h completely crosses another train having half the length of first train and travelling in opposite direction at 42 km/h in 12 seconds. The train having speed 48 km/h also passes a railway platform in 45 seconds. What is the length of the platform ?
correct answer:- 3
Question 3
A train can travel 40% faster then a car.Both the train and the car start from point A at the same time and reach point B, which is 70km away point from A,at the same time.On the way, however,the train lost about 15 minutes while stopping at stations. The speed of the car in km/h is:
correct answer:- 2
Question 4
A car covers a certain distance moving at a constant speed of 50 km/h in 3 hours. How much more time would it have taken to cover the same distance if the speed had been only 40 km/h?
correct answer:- 2
Question 5
A is twice as good a workman as B and together they finish a piece of work in 22 days. In how many days will A alone finish the same work?
correct answer:- 3
Question 6
Kamal and Anil can dig a pond in 8 days and 14 days, respectively. If the total expense of digging is ₹ 4,400, then how much money will Anil earn?
correct answer:- 2
Question 7
A and B together can complete a piece of work in 15 days. B and C together can do it in 24 days. If A is twice as good a workman as C, then in how many days can B alone complete the work?
correct answer:- 1
Question 8
Rahul and Mithun travel a distance of 30 km. The sum of their speeds is 70 km/h and the total time taken by both to travel the distance is 2 hours 6 minutes. The difference between their speeds is:
correct answer:- 4
Question 9
Mohan travels three equal distances at speeds of 12 km/h, 18 km/h and 24 km/h.If he takes a total of 13 hours, then what is the total distance covered?
correct answer:- 3
Question 10
A and B working together can do 30% of the work in 6 days. B alone can do the same work in 25 days. How long will A alone take to complete the same work?
correct answer:- 1
Question 11
The wheel of a car has 210 cm diameter. How many revolutions per minute must the wheel make so that the speed of the car is kept at 120 km/h ?
correct answer:- 4
Question 12
Ravi starts for his school from his house on his cycle at 8:20 a.m. If he runs his cycle at a speed of 10 km/h, he reaches his school 8 minutes late, and if he drives the cycle at a speed of 16 km/h, he reaches his school 10 minutes early. The school starts at:
correct answer:- 4
Question 13
25 men can complete a task in 16 days. Four days after they started working, 5 more men, with equal workmanship, joined them. How many days will be needed by all to complete the remaining task?
correct answer:- 1
Question 14
Two cars start from the same place at the same time at right angles to each other. Their speeds are 54 km/hr and 72 km/hr, respectively. After 20 seconds the distance between them will be:
correct answer:- 3
Question 15
A and B separately can build a wall in 12 and 16 days, respectively. If they work for 1 day alternatively, starting with A, in how many days will the wall be built?
correct answer:- 3
Question 16
A train travels the distance between stations P and Q at a speed of 126 km/h, while in the opposite direction it comes back at 90 km/h. Another train travels the same distance at the average speed of the first train. The time taken by the second train to travel 525 km is:
correct answer:- 3
Question 17
Water flows into a tank 180 m $$\times$$ 140 m through a rectangular pipe of 1.2m $$\times$$ 0.75 m at a rate of 15 km/h. In what time will the water rise by 4 m?
correct answer:- 1
Question 18
The distance between the places H and O is D units. The average speed that gets a person from H to O in a stipulated time is S units. He takes 20 minutes more time than usual if he travels at 60 km/h, and reaches 44 minutes early if he travels at 75 km/h. The sum of the numerical values of D and S is:
correct answer:- 4
Question 19
A can finish a piece of work in a certain number of days. B takes 45% more number of days to finish the same work independently. They worked together for 58 days and then the remaining work was done by B alone in 29 days. In how many days could A have completed the work, had he worked alone?
correct answer:- 2
Question 20
5 men and 8 women can complete a task in 34 days, whereas 4 men and 18 women can complete the same task in 28 days. In how many days can the same task be completed by 3 men and 5 women?
correct answer:- 1
