Direction Sense Questions and Answers

Q-15. Lucky Walks 7 km. in the East then he turns to his right and moves 20 km then he turns to his left and moves 5 km then again he turns to his left and moves 11 km. Now how far and in which direction is he from his starting point?
(A) 9 km South
(B) 64 km East
(C) 15 km South-East
(D) 7 km South

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Answer: (C) 15 km South-East
Explanation:  walking position of lucky shown in below diagram

AE2 = AG2 + GE2 
 AE2  = 122 + 92 
 AE2  =  225
 AE= \sqrt{225^{2}}  
AE = 15 km, South-East

Q-16. Vaibhav walks 6 km in the West Direction then he turns to his right and moves 8 km then he changes his mind and turns to his left and moves 9 km then turns to right and finally moves again 12 km. Now how far and in which direction is he from his starting point?
(A) 15 km North-East
(B) 35 km North-East
(C) 25 km North-West
(D) 45 km South-East

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Answer: (C) 25 km North-West
Explanation:  starting and ending movement of vaibhav shown below

As Shown in figure
BC = 8 km ; GD= 8 km
GB = 9 km ; DC = 9 km
GE = 20km ; AG=15km
EA= \sqrt{\left( 20 \right)^{2}+(15)^{2}}   
 = \sqrt{400+225}  
 = \sqrt{625}   
 = 25km (North-West)

Q-17. A dog is facing the north side. He turns 180⁰ in clockwise direction and also moves another 45⁰ in the same direction and then he turns 270⁰ in the anticlockwise direction. Now, in which direction is the dog facing?
(A) South-West
(B) South-East
(C) North-East
(D) North-West

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Answer: (D) North-West 
Explanation:  how the dog move, shown in below figure

Final Direction North West Degrees can only be judge towards the direction in which a person is facing instade of the path covered by him.

Q-18. A man moves 5 km. towards north from any point, then he turns to his right 90⁰ it and moves 5km. finally he turned to his left 45⁰ and moved 2 km. in which direction he is facing now.
(A) South
(B) South-East
(C) East
(D) South-West

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Answer: (C) East
Explanation: the man facing East direction, it is shown by below fig
  

Q-19. A soldier facing south moves straight 2 km and from there he takes a command to move to his right 90⁰ and travel 2km. Then all soldiers took a 45⁰ turn to his left And walked 1 km. Now which direction is he facing from his starting point?
(A) South region
(B) South-East region
(C) North-West region
(D) South-West region

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Answer: (D) South-West region 
Explanation: walking position of Soldier shown by below diagram

Karan is in South-West region with respect to his starting point.