Distance Problems (2)( Week 48 Practice) 1. The length of a train is 176 meters. It is driven at the speed of 22 meters per second. How many seconds will it take for the train to pass a 132-meter long tunnel (from entering to completely exiting from the tunnel)? 2. Alice starts out at the starting point of a trail at 6 meters per second, and 4 seconds later Joe starts out at the same point at the speed of 8 meters per second. In how many seconds will Joe catch up with Alice? 3. Steve and Anne start together and race their bikes around a circular trial at constant speeds. It will take Steve 8 minutes to go 1 lap, and it will take Anne 6 minutes for a lap. How long will it take Anne to be exactly 1 lap ahead of Steve (in minutes)? 4. The length of a bridge is 785 meters. A train crossed the bridge at 350 meters per minute. It took the train 3.1 minutes to cross the bridge (from entering to completely exiting the bridge). What is the length of the train in meters? 5. Ed drove his car at 43 mph for the same number of hours as that Ben drove his car at 52 mph. If Ed ended up driving 63 miles less than Ben, how many hours did they drive? |