QUESTION

CSAT

Medium

Maths

Prelims 2016

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?

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Explanation

Clearly, by the diagram below 33 km east, then 11 km north will bring X to his starting point.

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