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Questions : Sunita travels 6 Km towards north east. Then travels 9 Km towards west. From there, she goes 6 Km southwest and finally goes 3 Km towards east. How far is she from her initial position?

(a) 6 km.

(b) 12 km

(c) 3 km.

(d) 9 km.

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

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AE = AD – DE

= (9 – 3) km. = 6 km.

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Question : 1

Rama walked 10 kms south and turned right and walked 5 kms. Then again she turned right and walked 10 kms. Then she turned left and walked 10 kms. How many kms will Rama have to walk to reach the starting point?

a) 20 km

b) 15 km

c) 25 km

d) 5 km

Answer: (b)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= AE = AD + DE

= (5 + 10) km

= 15 km

Question : 2

Anushka starts from point L and walks 10m towards north. She then turns to her right and walks 5m. Again she turns to her left and walks 10m and then she takes one more left turn of 5m up to the point M. How far is she from her starting point L?

a) 20 metre

b) 30 metre

c) 5 metre

d) 25 metre

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= LM = LA + AM

= (10 + 10) metre

= 20 metre

Question : 3

Shyam walked 6 metres facing towards East, then took a right turn and walked a distance of 9 metres. He then took a left turn and walked a distance of 6 metres. How far is he from the starting point ?

a) 21 metres

b) Can't be determined

c) 15 metres

d) 18 metres

e) None of these

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance

Movements of Shyam are as shown in the figure given below:

A = Starting point D = End point

AD = $√{AE^2 + ED^2}$ ; Here AE = AB + BE (=CD)

= (6 + 6) = 12m & ED = BC = 9 m

∴ AD = $√{12^2 + 9^2}$ = $√{144 + 81}$ = $√{225}$ = 15m

Question : 4

Ruhi travels 10 km towards north, turns left and travels 4 km and then again turns right and covers another 5 km and turns right and travels another 4 km. How far is she from the starting point?

a) 10 km

b) 20 km

c) 5 km

d) 15 km

Answer: (d)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= AE = AB + BE

= (10 + 5) km = 15 km.

Question : 5

Vivek and Ashok start from a fixed point. Vivek moves 3 km north and turns right and then covers 4 km. Ashok moves 5 km west and turns right and walks 3 km, Now how far are they apart ?

a) 9 km

b) 6 km

c) 10 km

d) 8 km

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= (5 + 4) = 9 km

Question : 6

A boy ride his bicycle northwards, then turned left and ride one km and again turned left and ride 2 km. He found himself exactly one km west of his starting point. How far did he ride northwards initially?

a) 2 km

b) 5 km

c) 1 km

d) 3 km

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance

Clearly, the boy ride from A to B, then to C and finally upto D Since D lies to the west of A, so required distance = AB = CD = 2 km.

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