Math Drills
Speed Review
2Word Problems
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What this worksheet covers
- Topic
- Speed
Dividing distance by time to express speed is organized into three uses: Finding the Speed, Finding the Distance and Finding the Time. Two-step problems follow, along with unit conversions linking speed per hour, per minute and per second, and comparisons between speeds given in different units.
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Treating 1 hour 20 minutes as 1.2 hours is the most frequent error. Any answer that used the time as a decimal without converting to minutes is this pattern. In unit conversion, children multiply by 60 where they should divide, and the ordering of speed per second and speed per minute comes out backward.
Amount per Unit Quantity compared quantities that stayed still; here the same idea is fitted to people and objects in motion, and organized into three ways of finding speed, distance or time. These three ways are applied in grade 6, when Traveler Problems combines the motion of two people at once.
- Speed, Distance, and Time · Finding the Speed1 question
- Speed, Distance, and Time · Finding the Speed (Two Steps)1 question
- Speed, Distance, and Time · Finding the Distance1 question
- Speed, Distance, and Time · Finding the Distance (Two Steps)1 question
- Speed, Distance, and Time · Finding the Time1 question
- Speed, Distance, and Time · Finding the Time (Two Steps)1 question
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Problems and answers on this worksheet
These are the problems in “Speed”, shown with their answers.
(1)A taxi travels a distance of 135km in 3 hours. How many km per hour is the speed of this taxi? Answer □
Answer: 45km/h
(2)A boat travels a distance of 1200m in 4 minutes. What is the speed of this boat in how many m? Answer □
Answer: 5m/s
(3)There is a cheetah that runs at a speed of 30m per second. If this cheetah runs for 12 seconds, how many m does it run? Answer □
Answer: 360m
(4)There is a dog running at a speed of 600m/min. How many m does this dog travel in 45 seconds? Answer □
Answer: 450m
(5)A car that travels at a speed of 60km per hour covers a distance of 180km. How many hours does it take? Answer □
Answer: 3hours
(6)There is a bullet train that travels at a speed of 5km per minute. How many hours does it take for this bullet train to travel 1500km? Answer □
Answer: 5hours
