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100
How many meters is 1 kilometer (km)?
1000 meters (m)
100

How many seconds are in half a minute?

30 seconds.

100

If Raj lives 5km away from school, and he rides his bike at a speed of 10km/hr from home to school, how long does it take him?

30 minutes or 0,5 hours or 1/2 hour (all answers acceptable)

100

The boy ran 20 km in 4 hours. What was the boy's speed?

5 km/hr

100

The horse ran 50 km in 2 hours. How fast did the horse run?

s = 25 km/hr

200
How many kilometers (km) is 45,500 meters (m)?
45.5 kilometers (km)
200

How many minutes are in 3/4 of an hour?

45 minutes. (1 hour = 60 minutes)

200

Thomas drops an egg off of the roof, it takes 6 seconds to hit the ground, and the roof is 30m off the ground, what is the speed of the egg?

5 meters per second (5 m/s)

200

The runner ran 10km/hr and she ran for 2.3 hours. How far did she run?

23 km

200

What is the distance the woman walked if she walked at 12 km/hour for 3 hours?

d = 36 km

300
Which distance is greater, 4999 meters or 4.999 kilometers?
Neither. They are equal.
300
How many seconds are in 1 hour?
3600 seconds.


(60 seconds per minute X 60 minutes per hour; 60 x 60= 3600)

300

Ikjot is running the Stockholm Marathon. He starts at 10:00am and runs at a speed of 6km/hr. How far has Ikjot ran by 12:30pm if he does not slow down?

15km.

Speed = 6

Time = 2.5

6 x 2.5 = 15

300

The snail crawled at 5 m/hr and crawled a distance of 32 m. How long did the snail crawl for?

time = 6.4 hours

300

The Arlanda Express drives at a speed of 200km/hr. If it takes the Express 20 minutes to reach the airport from Stockholm Central, how far does the train travel?

66km

(200 km X 0,33hours)

(20 minutes = 1/3 of an hour)

400
How many centimeters is 56 meters?
5600 centimeters (cm)
400

How many hours are in a week?

168


(7 days X 24 hours)

400
Leonard leaves his house at 10:30am , riding his bike at a speed of 8km/hr. His sister Tanya, leaves the house 30 minutes later (11:00am) and rides at a speed of 12km/hr. At what time does Tanya pass Leonard?

12:00pm

8km/hr x 1.5 hours = 12km

12km/hr x 1 hour = 12km

400

The girl could run 14,000 m/hr and she ran 7 km. How long did she run?

0,5 hours. 

400

How many kilometers did the train travel if it traveled 34,000 meters in one hour and traveled for 7 hours?

238 km

500
What base metric unit is used to measure distance?
meter
500
How many seconds are in a day?

86400 seconds.

(60 x 60 x 24)

500

In a distance, speed, and time graph, where do you find the time? Where do you find the distance? Where do you find the speed?

(All 3 answers must be correct for points)

Time = On the X axis

Distance = On the Y axis

Speed = the line inside the graph itself.

500

A marathon is a race that has a distance of 24km. Jonas is running the marathon at a pace of 5km/hr. How long does it take Jonas to run the whole marathon?

4,8 hours.

500

Two trains are 800km apart at different stations. One train is driving west at a speed of 40km/hr, the other train is driving east at a speed of 60km/hr. If both trains leave the station at 09:00am, what time will pass each other?

15:00pm

(It takes the trains 8 hours to meet, every hour they are closing 100km of the gap between each other.)