Motion Problems — Engineering Board Exam Practice Questions

13 free engineering board exam reviewer questions on Motion Problems (Algebra), each with the correct answer and a worked solution.

  1. Desiree fires a bullet toward a target at a speed of 900 m/s. After 2.50 seconds, she heard the sound of the bullet as it struck the…
  2. A Corvette and a Lamborghini compete in a race for a stretch of 3000 m. It took the Corvette 130 seconds while the Lamborghini took 110…
  3. Two airplanes left airports that are 600 km apart and flew toward each other. One flew 20 kph faster than the other. If they passed each…
  4. A car takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to travel from Manila to Baguio, considering the congested traffic in the Philippines. Without the…
  5. Marlon requires 3 hours to row 15 miles downstream. The return trip upstream takes 5 hours. Find the average speed of the rowboat in still…
  6. Melvin rows to a place 48 km distant and back in 14 hours. He finds that he can row 4 km with the stream in the same time as 3 km against…
  7. Two trains are running in the same direction on two parallel tracks. One train 180 m long is moving at 120 kph and the other train 120 m…
  8. It takes an airplane one hour and forty-five minutes to travel 500 miles against the wind and it covers the same distance in one hour and…
  9. A speed boat can make a trip of 100 miles in one hour and 30 minutes if it travels upstream. If it travels downstream, it will take one…
  10. A man rows 12 km downstream and back to his starting point in 2.5 hours. If the speed of the stream is 2 km/h, what is his rowing speed in…
  11. Train A leaves a station at 8:00 AM traveling at 60 km/h. Train B leaves the same station on the same track at 9:30 AM traveling at 90…
  12. A boat travels 30 km downstream in 2 hours and returns upstream in 3 hours. Find the speed of the current.
  13. A car travels 270 km in 3 hours and then 130 km in 2 hours. What is its average speed for the whole trip?