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Travel Graphs

Test your understanding of distance-time and speed-time graphs with this self-marking exercise.

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This is level 1; Reading information from distance-time graphs.

Cycling to school This distance-time graph show the journey a pupil makes by bicycle to school each day. The distance from home to school is eight kilometres and there are traffic lights on the way.
How far are the traffic lights from the pupil's home?	km ✓ ✗
How many minutes did the pupil have to wait at the traffic lights?	min ✓ ✗
Consider the speed the pupil was cycling before and after the wait at the traffic lights. Which of the following statements is true? a) The pupil was cycling faster before the traffic lights than after. b) The pupil was cycling slower before the traffic lights than after. c) The pupil's speed was the same before and after stopping at the traffic lights. Type in the single letter a, b or c for your answer.	✓ ✗
Delivering Bread This distance-time graph show the journey a bread delivery van makes one day. The van travels from the bakery to a shop and then returns to the bakery.
How far was the shop from the bakery?	km ✓ ✗
What speed did the delivery van travel on the outward-leg of the journey?	km/h ✓ ✗
What speed did the delivery van travel on the return journey?	km/h ✓ ✗
Train Travelling Times A train sets off from London at 2:30pm and heads towards Edinburgh, 350 miles away. It stops briefly on route. At 2pm another train left Edinburgh heading for London and arriving at 9pm. This distance time graph shows the situation.
At what time did the two trains pass?	pm ✓ ✗
How many hours after the train left London did it stop?	h ✓ ✗
At what speed did the Edinburgh bound train travel when it first left London before it stopped?	mph ✓ ✗
Consider the London bound train's complete journey. What was it's average speed from Edinburgh to London?	mph ✓ ✗

This is Travel Graphs level 1. You can also try:
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Level 1 - Reading information from distance-time graphs

Level 2 - Matching distance-time graphs with their descriptions

Level 3 - Reading information from speed-time graphs

Level 4 - Draw a travel graph from the given description

Exam Style Questions - A collection of problems in the style of GCSE or IB/A-level exam paper questions (worked solutions are available for Transum subscribers).

More Graphs including lesson Starters, visual aids, investigations and self-marking exercises.

Answers to this exercise are available lower down this page when you are logged in to your Transum account. If you don’t yet have a Transum subscription one can be very quickly set up if you are a teacher, tutor or parent.

Distance-Time Graphs

For a basic introduction to distance-time graphs see Hurdles Race. For more details play the video below.

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