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Questions : An insect is walking in a straight line. It covers a distance of 15 cm per minute. It comes back 2.5 cm after every 15 cm. How long will it take to cover a distance of 1 metre ?

(a) 8 min

(b) 12 min

(c) 6.5 min

(d) 10 min

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

The insect covers 15 – 2.5 = 12.5 cm in one minute.

So, it will cover 1 metre (= 100 cm) in $100/12.5$ = 8 minutes

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Question : 1

If Sita walks 10 km towards West, then turned towards South and walked 10 km, then turned East walked 10 km, and turned North walked 10 km. How far she is from starting point?

a) 0 km

b) 20 km

c) 40 km

d) 10 km

Answer: (a)

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Question : 2

Mr. Das started his journey from his house straight to his friend’s house at a distance of 12 km. On returning he walked 8 km in the same route and turned right and walked 4 km, then he turned to his left and walked 4 km. Finally he turned to his left and walked 2 km. How far was he from his house ?

a) 4 km

b) 2 km

c) 8 km

d) 6 km

Answer: (b)

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Required distance = AF

= 2 km

Question : 3

Rahul travelled from a point and straightly goes to point ‘Y’ at a distance of 90 metres. He turned right and walked 40 metres, then again turned right and walked 70 metres. Finally, he turned right and walked 40 metres. How far he is from the starting point ?

a) 10 metres

b) 30 metres

c) 70 metres

d) 20 metres

Answer: (d)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance = AE

= 20 metre

Question : 4

Raju drives 25 km North and turns left and travels 5 km and reaches point ‘O’. He then turns right and covers another 5 kms. Afterwards turns to east and drives 5 km. How much distance he has to travel to go back to the starting point?

a) 25 kms

b) 20 kms

c) 35 kms

d) 30 kms

Answer: (d)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance AD

= (25 + 5) km = 30 km

Question : 5

Deepak starts walking straight towards east. After walking 75 meters, he turns to the left and walks 25 metres straight. Again the turns to the left, walks a distance of 40 meters straight, again he turns to the left and walks a distance of 25 metres. How far is he from the starting point?

a) 50 metres

b) None of these

c) 25 metres

d) 115 metres

Answer: (b)

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The movements is shown in figure— Clearly, EB = DC = 40 m.

So, distance from the starting point A = (AB – EB) = (75 – 40) m = 35 m.

Question : 6

Rachel starts walking towards North. After walking 15 metres, she turns towards South and walks 20 metres. She then turns towards East and walks 10 metres. Then, again, she walks 5 metres towards North. How far is she from her starting point and in which direction ?

a) 5 metres, East

b) 10 metres, East

c) 10 metres, West

d) 5 metres, North

Answer: (b)

direction-and-distance-verbal-reasoning

Required distance = AE = 10m

Rachel is 10 metres towards East from the starting point.

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