MCQ Practice

An athlete claimed that his timing for a 100 m dash should be corrected because the starting signal was gives by a gun fired from a point 10 m away from him and the timekeeper was standing close to the gun. The error due to this could be (in seconds) :

Subject: MathematicsTopic: Time Distance
A

0.03 sec

B

0.1 sec

C

0.5 sec

D

0.7 sec

Correct Answer: A