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DIRECTIONS:
  1. Point A is 10 m west of point B.
  2. Point B is 6 m south of point C and also 7 m north of point D.
  3. Point E is 4 m west of point D.
  4. Point C is 6 m east of point F.

The following question based on direction & distance sense test topic of verbal reasoning

Questions : A person starts from point F, walks 2 m in south direction and reaches a point T. He takes a right turn and reaches point K, north of point A. Find TK + BD – DE.

(a) 7 m

(b) 9 m

(c) 8 m

(d) 6 m

e) 5 m

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

TK = 10 – 6 = 4 m

So TK + BD – DE = 4 + 7 – 4

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Question : 1

Find distance AE.

a) 8 m

b) 10 m

c) $4√10 km$

d) $8√3 m$

e) $5√8 m$

Answer: (c)

AE = $√((10+4)^2 + 7^2 ) = 4√10 km$

Question : 2

A person starts from point D, walks 10 m in north direction and reaches point S. He takes a right turn, walks 2 m and reaches point X. Find distance XE.

a) $5√13 m$

b) $2√13 m$

c) $2√24 m$

d) $3√29 m$

e) $2√26 m$

Answer: (e)

XE = $√ (10^2 + 2^2 ) = 2√26 m$

DIRECTIONS:

Read the following information and answer the questions given below it:

  1. A is the father of C.
  2. But C is not his son.
  3. E is the daughter of C.
  4. F is the spouse of A.
  5. B is the brother of C.
  6. D is the son of B.
  7. G is the spouse of B.
  8. H is the father of G.

Question : 3

Who is the grandmother of D?

a) A

b) C

c) F

d) H

Answer: (c)

D is the son of B, B is the brother of C and A is the father of C. This means that B is the father of D and A is the father of B. So, A is the grandfather of D. Since F is the spouse of A, so F is the grandmother of D.

Question : 4

A student walked out from the Classroom towards the Library. She went first to the Canteen on the left side, 24 ft away. After a cup of tea, took a right turn and went to the Laboratory 13 ft away. She then went to the Physics Block, 15 ft to the left. She talked to a friend, in the garden 3 ft on the left and continued walking in the same direction to the Library, 10 ft more. What was the actual distance between the Library and the Classroom ?

a) 65 ft

b) 34 ft

c) 42 ft

d) 39 ft

Answer: (d)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

AF = AB + BF

= (24 + 15) ft

= 39 ft

Question : 5

Ram and Sam start walking towards North and cover 20 metres. Ram turns to his left and Sam to his right. After sometime, Rain walks 10 metres, in the same direction in which he turned. On the other hand, Sam walks only 7 metres. Later, Ram turns towards his left and Sam to his right. Both walk 25 metres forward. How far is Ram from Sam now ?

a) 5 metres

b) 20 metres

c) 17 metres

d) 10 metres

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= (10 + 7) metres = 17 metres

Question : 6

Rishu started walking towards East from a point 'X', walked 250 metres and reached the point 'P'. Again, he turned towards South, walked 50 metres and reached point Q. Again he turned towards east and walked 250 metres and reached point 'R. He again turned South, walked 50 metres and reached point S. What is the shortest distance between X and S?

a) 1100 metres

b) 590.9 metres

c) 509.9 metres

d) 561.2 metres

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance

XS = $√{XT^2 + TS^2}$ = $√{500^2 + 100^2}$

$√{250000 + 10000}$ = 509.9 metres

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