2025 DSS PRELIMS P1 Q7

2025 DSS PRELIMS P1 Q7

Secondary 4
3 marks

The bullet train in Japan takes 1.55 hours to travel 341 kilometres from Tokyo to Nagoya.

  1. By rounding these numbers correct to 1 significant figure, find an estimate of the speed of the bullet train. Show the numbers you use.[1]
  2. Without doing any further calculation, explain why the actual speed is faster than the answer to part (a).[1]
  3. The actual speed of a bullet train is \(227\text{ km/h}\). Change \(227\text{ km/h}\) into metres per second.[1]

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Answer:(a) \(150\text{ km/h}\) (b) underestimate (c) \(63.1\text{ m/s}\)

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