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Questions : 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

The correct answers to the above question in:

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

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Question : 1

Rahul is facing west. Then he turned right three times and walked straight for a distance of 15 km, 15 km, and 35 km respectively, How far is he from starting point ?

a) 25 km

b) 20 km

c) 15 km

d) 30 km

Answer: (a)

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Let his starting point is S.

AB = SC =15 m, BC = AS = 15km

BD - BC = 35 - 15 = 20 km

SD = $√{SC^2 + CD^2}$ = $√{15^2 + 20^2}$

= $√{225 + 400}$ = $√{625}$ = 25km

Question : 2

A man drives his car 50 km towards eastward direction. He turned right went for 30 km, then he turned west and drive for 10km. How far is he from the starting point ?

a) 60 km

b) 20 km

c) 50 km

d) 100 km

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

AD = $√{AE^2 + DE^2}$

= $√{40^2 + 30^2}$

 = $√{1600 + 900}$

= $√{2500}$ = 50 km

Question : 3

Starting from a point O, Mahesh walks a distance of 5 km. South, then turns to his right and walks 3 km. From there he again turns right and walks 5 km. He then turns to his left and walks 5 km. How far is he from the starting point?

a) 8 km.

b) 15 km

c) 13 km.

d) 5 km.

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= OS = OR + RS

= (3 + 5) km = 8 km.

Question : 4

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 : 5

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 : 6

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.

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

AE = AD – DE

= (9 – 3) km. = 6 km.

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