CSATLogical ReasoningDirection Sense Reasoning2016

A person X was driving in a place where all roads ran either north-south or east-west, forming a grid. Roads are at a distance of 1 km from each other in a parallel. He started at the intersection of two roads, drove 3 km north, 3 km west and 4 km south. Which further route could bring him back to his starting point, if the same route is not repeated ?

A

3 km east, then 2 km south

B

3 km east, then 1 km north

C

1 km north, then 2 km west

D

3 km south, then 1 km north

Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation

This is a classic direction-sense question, a type we've seen before in papers from 2014 and 2015. [2, 11] The most elegant way to solve it is not by drawing the whole pat

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