Reasoning Questions : Direction Sense Test Concept -264

1)Anjali goes 12 km towards North from a fixed point and then she goes 8 km towards South from there. In the end she goes 3 km towards east. How far and in what direction is she from her starting point?
A) 7 km East
B) 5 km West
C) 7 km West
D) 5 km North-East
E) None of these

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Answer D) 5 km North-East

2) Ritu goes 30 km towards North from a fixed point, then after turning to her right she goes 15 km. After this she goes 30 km after turning to her right. How far and in what
direction is she from her starting point?
A) 45 km, East
B) 15 km, East
C) 45 km, West
D) 45 Km, North
E) None of these

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Answer B) 15 km, East

3)Neha goes 5 km towards east from a fixed point N and then 35 km after turning to her left. Again she goes 10 km after turning to her right. After this she goes 35km after turning to her right. How far is she from N ?
A) 40 m
B) At N
C) 10 m
D) 15 m
E) None of these

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Answer D) 15 m

4)Kiran started walking towards east .After walking 10m,he took a right turn and walked 10m.He then took a left turn and walked 30m and again took a left turn and walked 40m.Now Kiran how far and in which direction from the starting point?
A)North-west 30m
B)South-west 50m
C)North-east 50m
D)North-east 60m
E)None of these

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Answer C)North-east 50m

5)A, B, C , D ,E , F, G and H are sitting around a circular table in the same order for a discussion at equal distances .Their positions are clockwise.If G sits in the north ,then what will be the position of D?
A)South
B)East
C)South-west
D)North-west
E)None of these

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Answer C)South-west

6)Sahil walked 20m toward North, took a left turn and walked 10m.He again took a left turn and walked for 20m.How far and in which direction is he from the starting point ?
A)10m
B)20m
C)30m
D)40m
E)None of these

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Answer A)10m

7) Umesh directly went from P, to Q which is 9 feet distant. Then he turns to the right and walked 4 feet. After this he turned to the right and walked a distance which is equal from P to Q. Finally he turned to the right and walked 3 feet. How far is he now from P?
A)6 feet
B)5 feet
C)1 feet
D)0 feet

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Answer C)1 feet

8)Ram started walking towards North. After walking for 5 m, he turned to his right where he walked 10 m before he took the left turn. Now he walked for 5 m and then took a right turn. He walked for 4 m and then finally stopped after turned to his right to add additional 8 m to his journey. At what distance is he from the starting point?
A) 10 m
B) 10√2 m
C) 20 m
D) 18 √2 m
E) None of these

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Answer B) 10√2 m

9)Shyam walks 5 km towards East and then turns left and walks 6 km. Again he turns right and walks 9 km. Finally he turns to his right and walks 6 km. How far is he from the starting point?
A)26 km
B)21 km
C)14 km
D)9 km

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Answer C)14 km

10)A clock is placed in such a way that when it is 12’O clock, the hands point towards North east direction. In which direction will the hour hand point at 6 PM?
A) West
B) East
C) South
D) South-west
E) South-east

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Answer D) South-west
Explanation:
At 12’O clock, the hands should point straight to North direction, but they are pointing north east direction. So when it will be 6 PM, the hour hand will be slightly away from 6 i.e. it will point south west.

11)After walking for 1 m, Madhuri turned to her left and walked another 12 m. Again she turned to her left and walked for 4 m. Now she is travelling in East direction. In which direction did she start her journey?
A) West
B) East
C) North
D) South
E) North-east

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Answer A) West
Explanation:
To solve this, we will start from opposite.
She is facing east now, and before that she had taken a left turn – this means she was walking in south direction, then took left turn and is in East direction finally.
Now before moving in South direction, she had taken a left turn – this means she was coming in west direction, took left turn and then she is in south.
So finally we have got that she started in west direction.

12)Madhuri started walking in north and after walking 5 m she turned to her left. Now she walked 4 m and turned to her left again and walked 5 m. Now finally she turned to her left again and walked 5 m. What is the distance of this point from starting point?
A) 0 m
B) 4 m
C) 2 m
D) 1 m
E) None of these

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Answer D) 1 m

13) Rohit walked 25 m towards south. Then he turned to his left and walked 20 m. He then turned to his left and walked 25 m. He again turned to his right and walked 15 m. At what distance is he from the starting point and in which direction?
A)35 m East
B)35 m North
C)30 m West
D)45 m East

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Answer A)35 m East