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Questions : A girl walks 100 m straight from her home, to go to the market during her morning walk. Then she turns left for 60 m, then 85 m turning her right and then again turns right for 60 m, she can see her shadow now. Therefore, in which direction is the entry gate of her house facing and what is the shortest distance from her current location to ther home ?

(a) East, 160 metre

(b) North, 185 metre

(c) South, 185 metre

(d) North, 160 metre

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= AE = AB + BE

= (100 + 85) eh- = 185 metres

Entry gate of her house is facing South.

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Question : 1

One evening before sunset two friends Sumit and Mohit were talking to each other face to face. If Mohits shadow was exactly to his right side, which direction was Sumit facing ?

a) South

b) Data inadequate

c) West

d) North

e) None of these

Answer: (b)

In the evening, the sun is in the west and so the shadows fall towards the east.

Now, since Mohit's shadow fell towards right, therefore, Mohit is facing North.

So, Sumit standing face to face with Mohit was facing South.

Question : 2

Raheja started from a point. He walked 3km to the North, then turned East and walked 4km, then turned West walked 2km and then turned West walked 3km and stopped. In which direction is Raheja from his starting point ?

a) North

b) South

c) East

d) West

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Raheja is to the east of the starting point.

Question : 3

A child walks 25 feet towards North, turns right and walks 40 feet, turns right again and walks 45 feet. He then turns left and walks 20 feet. He turns left again walks 20 feet. Finally, he turns to his left to walk another 20 feet. In which direction is the child from his starting point ?

a) West

b) South

c) North

d) East

Answer: (d)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

The child is in east direction from the starting point.

Question : 4

A man starts from a point, walks 2 km towards north, turns towards his right and walks 2 km, turns right again and walks. What is the direction now he is facing ?

a) North

b) East

c) South

d) West

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

It is clear from the diagram that he is facing towards south.

Question : 5

From a point, a person starts walking in south direction. He takes a right turn, then taken 2 lefts turns and then takes two right turns and stops after walking 3 km. In which direction he is standing with respect to the starting point?

a) East

b) West

c) South

d) North

e) Cannot be determined

Answer: (e)

Question : 6

A man leave for his office from his house. After moving distance of 20 km, he turn south and walked 10 km then he turn his right and after walking further 35 km, again turned his right and move for 10 km, and at last he turned his right and walked 5 km to reach his office. He is facing east direction now. If straight distance between his house and office is 30 km, then he started walking in which direction before his first south turn?

a) West

b) East

c) South-west

d) North-west

e) None of these

Answer: (a)

Only probable solution is the one drawn below. [If his house was 30 km west of office, he would have taken some other path to reach office] So before turning to south, he was travelling in west direction.

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