1. Deepak starts walking straight towards east.

After walking 75 m he turns to the left and

walks 25 m straight. Again he turns to the left and walks a distance of 40m straight, again he
turns to the left and walks a distance of 25 m. How far is he from the starting point?

(1) 140 m (2) 35 m (3) 115 m (4) 25 m (5) None of these

Solution:

(2) The movements of Deepak are as shown in the figure Clearly, EB = DC = 40 m

... Deepak’s distance from the starting point
A = (AB - EB) = (75 - 40) = 35 metres

2. Arun started walking towards North. After walking 30 m, he turned left and walked 40 m.
He then turned left and walked 30 m. He again turned left and walked 50 m. How far is he
from his original position?

(1) 50 m (2) 40 m (3) 30 m (4) 20 m (5) None of these

Solution:

(5) The movements of Arun are as shown in figure from A to E, clearly Arun’s
distance from his original position = AE = (DE - DA)
= (DE - BC) = 10 m.
3. Ramu went 15 km. to the west from his house, then he turned left and walked 20 km. He
then turned east and walked 25 km. and finally turning left covered 20 km. How far is he
from his house?

(1) 5 km. (2) 10 km. (3) 40 km. (4) 80 km. (5) None of these

Solution:

(2) The movements of Ramu are as shown in figure. Ramu’s distance from his house at A =
AE

= (BE - AB) = (CD - AB) = (25 - 15)km = 10 km

4. Rekha who is facing south turns to her left and walks 15 m, then she turns to her left and
walks 7 metres, then facing west she walks 15m. How far is she from her original position?

(1) 22 m (2) 37 m (3) 44 m (4) 7 m (5) None of these

Solution:

The movements of Rekha are as shown in figure ... Rekha’s distance from the starting point
A
= AD = BC = 7 m.

5. Going 50 m to the south of her house, Radhika turns left and goes another 20 m. Then,
turning to the north, she goes 30 m and then starts walking to her house. In which direction is
she walking now?

(1) North-west (2) North (3) South-east (4) East (5) None of these

Solution:

(1) The movements of Radhika are as shown in the figure. Thus she is now moving in the
direction DA i.e. North-west
6. Shailesh and Mohan start from a fixed point. Shailesh moves 3 km. northward, turns right
and then covers 4 km. Mohan moves 5 km westwards, turns right and walks 3 km. The
distance between Shailesh and Mohan now is

(1) 10 km (2) 9 km (3) 8 km (4) 6 km (5) 4 km

Solution:

(2) Clearly, after travelling their total distances, Shailesh and Mohan are in the same
horizontal line at E & C respectively. So distance between them is EC = EB + BC = DA +
BC = 5 + 4 = 9 km.

7. A man walks 30 metres towards south. Then, turning to his right, he walks 30 metres. Then
turning to his left, he walks 20 metres. Again, he turns to his left and walks 30 metres. How
far is he from his initial position?

(1) 30 metres (2) 20 metres (3) 80 metres (4) 60 metres (5) None of these

Solution:

(5) The movements of the man are as shown in the figure.... The man’s distance from the
initial position
= AE = (AB + BE) = (AB + CD) = (30 + 20) m = 50 m.

8. Suresh starts from his house towards west. After walking a distance of 30 m, he turned
towards right and walked 20 metres. He then turned left and moving a distance of 10 metres,
turned to his left again and walked 40 metres. He now turns to the left and walks 5 metres.
Finally he turns to his left. In which direction is he walking now?

(1) North (2) South (3) East (4) South-West (5) West

Solution:
(1) The movements of Suresh are as shown in figure from A to G. Clearly, Suresh is walking
in the
direction FB, ie, North.

9. Raj travelled from a point X straight to Y at a distance of 80 m. He turned right and walked
50 m, then again turned right and walked 70 metres. Finally he turned right and walked 50 m.
How far is he from the starting point?

(1) 20 metres (2) 50 metres (3) 70 metres (4) 10 metres (5) None of these

Solution:

(4) The movements of Raj are as shown in figure. (X to Y, Y to A, A to B and B to C)

... Raj’s distance from the starting point = XC = (XY - YC) = (XY - BA) = (80 - 70) m = 10
m.

10. A man walks 10 km towards north. From there he walks 6 km towards south. Then he
walks 3 km towards east. How far and in which direction is he with reference to his starting
point?

(1) 7 km east (2) 5 km west (3) 5 km north-east (4) 7 km west (5) None of these

Solution:

(3) The movements of the man are as shown in the figure. (P to B, B to C, C to D)

PC = (PB - BC) = (10 - 6) = 4 km. Clearly D is to North-east of P. ... The man’s distance
from the
starting point PD = PC2 + CD2 = 42 + 32 = 16 + 9 = 5 km.
11. One morning after sunrise, Sumesh and Ratheesh were standing on a lawn with their
backs towards each other. Sumesh’s shadow fell exactly towards his left hand side. Which
direction was Ratheesh facing?

(1) East (2) West (3) North (4) South (5) North-east

Solution:

(4) Since Sumesh’s shadow fell towards left, Sumesh is facing north. As, Ratheesh is
standing with his
back towards Sumesh, he will be facing south.

12. A watch reads 4.30 if the minute hand points east, in what direction does the hour hand
point?

(1) North (2) North-west (3) South-east (4) North-east (5) None of these

Solution:

(4) Clearly to show 4.30, the position of the minute and hour hands of the clock will be as
shown, if
the minute hand points east, the hour hand will point to the North-east direction.

13. Five students A, B, C, D and E are sitting in a row, D is on the right of E. B is on the left
of E but is on the right of A. D is on the left of C. Who is sitting on the extreme left?

(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E

1) D is to the right of E means the order is ED. B is on the left of E but right of A means
ABE. D is to
the left of C means DC. Combining the arrangements, we have ABEDC. So, A is to the
extreme left.

14. Five persons were playing card game sitting in a circle all facing the centre. Ashish was
to the left of Milan Nitin was to the right of Anupam and between Anupam and Mukesh.
Who was to the right of Mukesh?

(1) Nitin (2) Milan (3) Mukesh (4) Ashish (5) Cannot be determined

Solution:

(4) Ashish (A) is to the left of Milind (M) means that the order is A, M. Nithin N is to the
right
of Anupam (An) means An, N. So Nithin is between Anupam and Mukesh (Mu) means An,
N, Mu. So the two
possible arrangements are A, M, An, N, Mu and An, N, Mu, A, M. But in a cyclic
arrangement
both will be considered the same. So Ashish will be to the right of Mukesh.
15. Facing the east, Rajesh turned left and walked 10 metres, then he turned to his left again
and walked 10 m. He then turned 45o towards his right and went straight to cover 25 metres.
In which direction from his starting point is he?

(1) South-west (2) South-east (3) North-west (4) North-east (5) East

Solution:

(3) Clearly the route followed by Rajesh is as shown in figure. So matching his final direction
with the
direction diagram, he will be in North-west direction from the starting point.