Distance and Direction

Four main Directions – North, South, East, West

Four Cardinal Direction – North-East, North-West, South-East, South-West

• At the time of sunrise, if a man stands facing the east, his shadow will be towards the west.
• At the time of sunset, the shadow of an object is always in the east.
• If a man stands facing the North, at the time of sunrise his shadow will be towards his left and at the time of sunset, it will be towards his right.
• At 12:00 noon, the rays of the sun are vertically downward hence there will be no shadow.

The above is the Directional Diagram. The direction sense consists of four different types of problems. Let’s see the types of Direction problems with solutions.

1. A man starting from his home walks 5 km towards East, and then he turns left and goes 4 km. At last, he turns to his left and walks 5 km. Now Find the distance between the man and his home and also find at which direction he is facing?

Sol.

From the above diagram, we can find he is 4 km from his house and facing the West Direction.

2. A man starting from his home moves 4 km towards East, then he turns right and moves 3 km. Now, what will be the minimum distance covered by him to come back to his home?

Sol.

3. After Sunrise, Prakash while going to college suddenly met with Lokesh at a crossing point. Lokesh’s Shadow was exactly to the right of Prakash. If they were facing each other on which direction was Prakash facing?

Sol. Always Sun rises in the East Direction. So Shadow falls towards West

4. Prem started from his home and moved 5 km to reach the crossing point of the palace. The road opposite to the direction Prem is heading goes to the hospital. The road to the right of Prem goes to the station. If the road which goes to a station is just opposite to the road of the IT-Park, in which direction is Prem which leads to the IT- Park?

Sol.

From the above diagram, it shows that the road which goes towards the IT-Park is left of Prem.

Distance and Direction Question and Answer

Q.1 A person walks 5m towards the east and walks 10m after taking a left and then he takes a right and walks 3m and then he takes a right and walks 20m and finally he takes a right and walks 3m. What is the direction of the person with respect to his starting point ?

A. south

B. southeast

C. northeast

D. east

Answer: B

Q.2 A person walks 5m towards the south and walks 5m after taking a left and then he takes a right and walks 5m and he again takes a left and walks 5m and finally, he takes a left and walks 10m. In which direction is the person with respect to the starting position?

A. north

B. south

C. west

D. east

Answer: D

Q.3 A person started walking towards South. After walking some distance, he turned left and walked for some distance. Then he again turned right. After walking some distance, he turned left. Then in which direction is he facing now?

A. North

B. West

C. South

D. East

Answer: D

Q.4 A person walked certain distance towards east. After walking some distance, he turned right and walked some distance. He again turned towards right and after walking some distance, he turned left and walked some distance. Then finally he turned right and after walking some distance, he stopped. In which direction, he is facing now?

A. South

B. West

C. East

D. North

Answer: B

Q.5 A person travelled towards east and walked for 39m. Then he took left and after walking for 9m, he realised that he misrouted and turned back and walked 80m. Then, which direction he is facing now?

A. North

B. South

C. East

D. West

Answer: B

Q.6 A person started from his home and travelled certain distance. Then, he took towards his right and again after travelling some distance, he turned left. Again, he turned towards his left and stopped after travelling some distance. If he is facing towards North now, then, in which direction he started from his home?

A. North

B. South

C. East

D. West

Answer: C

Q.7 Rahul started walking towards East and walked for 6 metres and stopped at point A. He then took left and walked for another 8 metres and stopped at point B. He then took right and walked for 15 metres and stopped at point C. Further he took right again and walked for 20 metres and finally stopped at point D. Then, Point D is in which direction with respect to point A?

A. North

B. South

C. North-West

D. South-East

Answer: D

Q.8 At dusk, Rohit started walking facing the west, After a while, he met his friend and both turned to their left. They halted for a while and started moving by turning again to their right. Finally Rohit waved ‘good bye’ to his friend and took a left turn at a corner. At which direction is Rohit moving now ?

A. South

B. West

C. North

D. East

Answer: A

Q.9 Raghu starts from his house in his car and travels 8 km towards the North, then 6 km towrads East ten 10 km towards his rigt, 4 km towards his left, 10 km toward north and finely 4 km towards his right. In which direction is he now with reference to the starting point ?

A. North

B. South-East

C. South

D. North-East

Answer: D

Q.10 Abhinav started running from his house, he first ran for 12 km towards west, then he turned towards north and ran 16 km in that direction. How far Abhinav is from his house and in which direction?

A. 13 km South

B. 13 km North

C. 15 km West

D. 20 km North-West

Answer: D