IBPS PO 2025 · Question 20 of 200

Two trains, 220m and 260m long, run on parallel tracks in opposite directions. Their speeds are in the ratio 5:7. If they cross each other in 16 seconds, find the speed of the faster train.

1. A63 km/hCorrect
2. B67.5 km/h
3. C54 km/h
4. D58.5 km/h
5. E45 km/h Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in a logical sequence to form a coherent and meaningful paragraph, and then answer the questions given below. (A) Consequently, some economists have begun to speak of a 'donut effect', in which economic activity hollows out from city centres and redistributes toward suburbs and smaller towns. (B) When large numbers of office workers stopped commuting into central business districts, the cafes, dry cleaners, and transit systems that depended on their daily presence lost a substantial share of their revenue overnight. (C) The shift toward remote work, accelerated dramatically by the pandemic, did not merely change where people performed their jobs; it altered the economic geography of entire metropolitan regions. (D) Yet it would be premature to conclude that central business districts are doomed to permanent decline, since many employers have since settled into hybrid arrangements that still bring workers downtown several days a week. (E) Whether this represents a temporary adjustment or a lasting restructuring of urban economies remains one of the more closely watched questions in urban economics today. (F) At the same time, residential demand shifted outward, as employees no longer tied to a daily commute sought larger homes in less expensive, lower-density areas.