Primary 6 Math
April Worksheet 1
Speed and Rate
Worksheet
Lego
Name : ____________________
Date : ____________________
Primary 6 Math
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Rate and Speed
What is a Rate?
Top speed →
44.72 km/h
Speed is most commonly measured in
kilometres per hour, or km/h in short. The
speedometer in a vehicle shows the speed
Average speed
→ 20 km/s
of the vehicle in km/h! 80 km/h
Almost the whole entire topic
can be summarised using this
Average speed
triangle! → 0.047 km/h
Where
d = distance
S = speed
t = time
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Rate and Speed
What is a Rate?
The other common rate we learn
in primary school is the rate of
water flowing out from a tap, into
a tank. It can be measured in
litres per minute, ℓ/min.
To convert a rate, convert one quantity at a
time. For example:
When converting km/h to m/min,
60 km/h = 60 000 m/h (change km to m first)
60 000 m/h = 1000 m/min (then change hours to
minutes)
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Rate and Speed
What is a Rate?
The volume of a tank that is a cuboid is:
Volume = Length × Breadth × Height
height
breadth
length
The formula can also be written as:
Volume = Base Area × Height
Therefore, how fast the water level in a tank rises
depends on 2 factors, the base area and the rate
of water flowing into the tank
The greater the base area, the slower the water
level rises as water must be spread over a larger
area.
Unlike other units of measurement, time can
be expressed in fractions. This is because 60
1
minutes make up an hour, so 3 hour jus
means 20 minutes. Expressing time as a
fraction of an hour makes your calculations a
lot easier.
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Rate and Speed
Calculators are not allowed in this section.
1) Fill in the blanks with the correct answers.
Distance Speed Time
(km/h)
(a) 80 km 20 km/h
(b) 150 km 90 min
(c) 80 km/h 120 min
(d) 120 km 25 km/h
(e) 75 km/h 1 h 20 min
(f) 200 km 4 hours
(g) 120 km/h 15 min
(h) 160 km 32 km/h
(i) 50 m 20 s
(j) 100 m 60 s
(k) 18 km/h 600 s
(l) 180 km 30 km/h
(m) 2000 m 12 min
(n) 130 km/h 6 min
(o) 12000 m 3h
(p) 10 km 50 km/h
(q) 16000 m 30 min
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2) The distance between a school and a house is 20 km. How fast must Mrs Tan
drive if she wants to get to school from the house in 20 minutes? Express your
answer in km/h.
Ans : ____________________
3) Town A is 180 km away from Town B. Andy wants to drive from Town A to Town B.
He drives at a speed of 25 km/h. How long will it take for Andy to travel from
Town A to town B? Express your answer in minutes.
Ans : ____________________
4) The diagram below shows a 50 cm × 50 cm × 50 cm tank. Water is flowing into
the tank from a tap at 5 ℓ/min. How fast is the water level rising every minute?
Rate → 5 ℓ /min
50 cm
50 cm
50 cm
Ans : ____________________
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5) Shaun started to drive from home to his office at 7 a.m.. He reached his office at
7.40 a.m.. What is the distance between his home and his office if he drove at
an average speed of 90 km/h?
Ans : ____________________
6) Tom took 30 minutes to cycle from his home to his school. He cycled at an
average speed of 30 km/h. How fast must Tom cycle if he wants to reach his
school 10 minutes earlier?
Ans : ____________________
7) The diagram below shows a 80 cm × 40 cm × 50 cm tank. Water is flowing into
the tank at a rate of 4 ℓ /min. How long will it take for the tank to be filled to the
brim with water?
Rate → 4 ℓ /min
50 cm
40 cm
80 cm
Ans : ____________________
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8) A train took 20 minutes to travel 45 km. Find the speed of the train.
Ans : ____________________
9) At 10 a.m., Mandy left Town A and cycled towards Town B at 30 km/h. She
reached town B at 1 p.m. Find the distance between Town A and Town B.
Ans : ____________________
10) The distance between one round of a running track is 400 m. Randy took 2
minutes to run one round of the running track. What was Randy’s average
running speed?
Ans : ____________________
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11) Nathan drove at a constant speed of 96 km/h on a highway. He completed
3
of his journey in 20 minutes. Find the total distance of his entire journey.
Ans : ____________________
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Calculators are allowed in this section.
12)At 09 00, a lorry left Town X for Town Y travelling at a speed of 70 km/h. At
the same time, a car left town Y for Town X travelling at a speed of 90
km/h. The distance between Town X and Town Y is 580 km. At what time
did the lorry and car pass each other?
Ans : ____________________
13)Andrew and Sarah started jogging from the same place in opposite
directions along a straight path. Both of them did not change their speed.
After jogging for 40 minutes, they were 7 km apart. Andrew’s speed was 30
m/min faster than Sarah. How far did Andrew jog? Express your answer in
kilometres.
Ans : ____________________
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14)Mr Sim takes 4 h to travel from his home to Town A at an average speed of
64 km/h. If he wants to reach Town A 15 minutes earlier, at what speed
must he travel?
Ans : ____________________
15)A rectangular tank measuring 112 cm by 80 cm is filled with water to a
height of 14 cm. When 28.8 litres of water is removed, the water level drops
2
to 5 the height of the container. What is the capacity of the tank?
Ans : ____________________
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16)Jamie takes 6 days to paint a house. Her sister takes 10 days to paint the
same house. If they work together, what fraction of the house will they be
able to paint in 3 days? Give your answer in its simplest form.
Ans : ____________________
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17)Ken travelled from his house to the park. He ran of the journey in 3
3
3
minutes and jogged of the remaining journey. He walked the rest of the
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journey in 2.5 minutes at an average speed of 80 m/min. What was Ken’s
running speed?
Ans : ____________________
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18)X and Y are two rectangular containers. The base area of X is 90 cm2 while
that of Y is 60 cm2. At first X contained water to a height of 35 cm and Y
was empty, as shown below. Richard then poured some water from X to Y
until the water levels in both containers are the same. What is the height of
the water level?
35 cm
X Y
Ans : ____________________
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19)Raja and Greg took part in a walkathon which started at 7.20 a.m. Raja’s
average speed was 30 m/min faster than Greg. When Raja completed the
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walkathon in 40 minutes, Greg had only walked 6 of the distance.
(a)What time was it when Greg completed the walkathon?
(b)Find Raja’s average speed for the walkathon in m/mind
Ans : (a)____________________
(b)____________________
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20)At 10.30 a.m., Tim left Town A for Town B, driving at a speed of 75
km/h. At 11.30 a.m., Alvin also left Town A for Town B driving at a
certain speed. Both of them did not change their speed
throughout the journey. At 2.30 p.m., both of them passed a
shopping mall that was 150 km away from Town B. How many
minutes earlier did Alvin reach Town B than Tim?
Ans : ____________________
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21)At 10 a.m., Andy and Estella started walking from the same place
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towards Plaza Singapura. When Estella had completed walking 5 of the
2
distance, Andy had only completed walking of the distance to Plaza
3
Singapura. Estella’s average speed was 12 km/h faster than Andy’s. What
was Andy’s speed?
Andy Estella
Distance
Time
Speed
Use this table to help you
find out the relationship
between Andy’s and
Estella’s speed!
Ans : ____________________
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22)Faith has 2 tanks, A and B of different capacities. If tank A is filled by a
tap at a rate of 3 litres per minute and tank B is filled by a tap at a rate of
5 litres per minute, when tank A is completely filled, 5 litres of water
flowed out from tank B.
If tank A is filled by a tap at a rate of 4 litres per minute and tank B is
filled by a tap at a rate of 3 litres per minute, when tank A is completely
filled, tank B is only half-filled. What is the capacity of tank B?
Tank A Tank B
Volume
Time
Rate
Ans : ____________________
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23)An empty rectangular tank has a Tap B attached to it and a Tap A
above it. Tap A takes 2 minutes to fill up the tank completely. Tap B can
drain water out of the tank, if it was filled completely, in 3 minutes. If both
taps are turned on at the same time, what is the capacity of the tank if it
contains 80 litres of water after 5 minutes.
Ans : ____________________
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24)Lance left Town X and drove towards Town Y. Along the way, he met Ali
who was driving at a speed of 80 km/h in the opposite direction. 45
minutes later, Lance reached Town Y but Ali was still 50 km from Town X.
Both did not change their speed throughout. Lance took 2 hours to
complete the whole journey.
(a) What was Lance’s speed?
(b) What was the distance between Town X and Town Y?
Ans : (a)____________________
Ans : (b)____________________
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25)Jafar left Town G at 10 00 and drove to Town H at an average speed of
60 km/h. Half an hour later, Ivan left Town G and drove to Town H
travelling along the same route as Jafar. He met Jafar at a petrol station
at 1300 before reaching Town H at 14 00.
(a) Find the distance between Town G and Town H.
(b) Find the speed of Ivan. Give your answer correct to the nearest whole
number?
Ans : (a)____________________
Ans : (b)____________________
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26)Tank A and Tank B were two rectangular tanks. The base area of Tank A was
1800 cm2 while that of Tank B was 2400 cm2. At first, Tank A contained water
to a height of 25.5 cm and Tank B was empty as shown below. Then, water
flower from a tap into Tank B at a rate of 3 litres per minute for 12 minutes.
(a) What was the volume of the water in Tank B at the end of the 12
minutes?
(b) Some water was then transferred from Tank A to Tank B until the height
of the water level was the same in both tanks. What was the new height
of the water level in both tanks?
25.5 cm
Tank A Tank B
1800 cm2 2400 cm2 4200 cm2
When water is poured from one container to
another until their water levels are the same,
you can think of it like the 2 containers have
“merged” into one! So water is now spread Ans : (a)____________________
over their combined base area!
Ans : (b)____________________
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27)The tank shown below is made up of 2 containers. The top container is a
cuboid of base area 500 cm2. The bottom container is a cuboid of base
area 700 cm2 and height 27 cm. When tap A was turned on, the height
of the water level in the bottom container was increasing at the rate of
2.5 cm per minute. When the bottom container was completely filled,
Tap B was turned on too. The rate of water flowing from Tap B was 250 ml
per minute.
(a) How long did it take for the bottom container to be completely filled?
(b) How long did it take for the whole tank to be completely filled?
Ans : (a)________________ min
Ans : (b)________________ min
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