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Questions : Ram walks 12 kms to the North, then 10 kms to West, 12 kms to South. How far is Ram from the starting point ?

(a) 13 kms

(b) 10 kms

(c) 9 kms

(d) 8 kms

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

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Required distance = AD

= 10 km

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Question : 1

A man travels 3 km in the East and turns to South and moves 4 km. How far is he from the starting point ?

a) 6 km

b) 10 km

c) 5 km

d) 2 km

Answer: (c)

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direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

AC = $√{AB^2 + BC^2}$

= $√{3^2 + 4^2}$

= $√{9+ 16}$

= $√{25}$ = 5 km

Question : 2

A person starts from point T in east direction. Walks 6 m and turns right. Next walks 4 m and turns left. Next walks 3m and turns right. Now cycles for 8 km and stops. Find his distance from T.

a) $2√31 m$

b) 15 m

c) 17 m

d) $7√21 m$

e) 12 m

Answer: (b)

Distance = $√[(6+3)^2 + (4+8)^2 ] = 15 m$

Question : 3

A man travels 4 km due north, then travels 6 km due east and further travels 4 km due north. How far he is from the starting point ?

a) 10 km

b) 14 km

c) 8 km

d) 6 km

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

AD = $√{DE^2 + AE^2}$

= $√{8^2 + 6^2}$

= $√{64+ 36}$

= $√{100}$ = 10 km

Question : 4

A man starts from his office and goes 5 km East. Then, he turns to the left and again walks for 3 km. Again he turns left and walks 5 km. At what distance is he from the starting point ?

a) 4 km

b) 7 km

c) 3 km

d) 6 km

Answer: (c)

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The man is 3 km away from his office.

Question : 5

Somu travelled from a point A straight to B, a distance of 12 km. He turned right and travelled 8 km and reached point C. From that point took right turn and travelled 6 km, and reached point D. How far is he away from the starting point ?

a) 12 km

b) 14 km

c) 10 km

d) 13 km

Answer: (c)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance

= $√{8^2 + 6^2}$

= $√{64 + 36}$

= $√{100}$ = 10 km

Question : 6

Sanmitra walks 4 kms. towards north, turns right and walks 5 k.m. Then he turns towards south and walks 2 k.m. Again he takes a turn towards west walks 3 km and stops for a while. Then he further walks 2 km. What is the distance of Sanmitra from starting point ?

a) 2 k.m.

b) 3 k.m

c) 16 k.m.

d) 4 k.m.

Answer: (a)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance = 2 km

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