Question 2
A man left town M at 10:00 a.m. and travelled by car to town N at an average speed of 72 km/h. He spent 2 hours for a meeting and returned to town M by bus at an average speed of 40 km/h. If the distance covered by the bus was 2 km longer than that of the car and he arrived at town M at 1:55 p.m., calculate the distance from M to N.
Observation
The Chief Examiner reported that majority of the candidates’ attempted this question. The ability to translate the relationship between speed, distance and time was generally adhered to by the candidates.
They did as expected by getting the time spent travelling as 3 hours 55 mins –2 hours
= 1 hr 55 mins.
