60+ Direction Reasoning Questions। Distance and Direction Reasoning

Direction Reasoning Questions is one of the Easy and most important topic for competitive exam. In Direction Reasoning Questions you have to find out the correct direction using some given data in question. In this post we covered 60+ Direction Reasoning Questions for practice and it can help to obtained a good marks. Direction Reasoning Questions are mostly asked in UPSC, SSC JE, RRB JE, Banking, CGL, WCL and many other exams. Let’s start with some basic to advance examples of Distance and Direction Reasoning Questions and Answers with solution.

Direction Reasoning Tricks

1. Before solving Direction Reasoning Questions, you Must to have knowledge of the correct directions (i.e. East, West, North, South) as shown in the picture above.
2. Read the question carefully, While solving the direction reasoning questions.
3. Understand the different types of distance and direction which is given in the question.
4. After knowing of all directions and distance, try to visualize the mental image, you can also make a “rough diagram of distance and direction” on the paper on the basis of data that given in the question, which will make it easier for you to find the solution and find the direction.
5. To find a triangular distance, You can use “Pythagoras Theorem” also.
6. In this way, you can easily solve the question of Direction Reasoning Question.

Direction Reasoning Questions

Q-1. A man walking towards north after walking 100m he turns right and walk 75m again he turns right and walk 100 m and last movement he turns left and walk 25 m now which direction he is walking?
(a) South-West
(b) East
(c) North
(d)North-East

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Answer: (b) East 
Solution:
 

Q-2. A man walks in straight 100 m and turns his right and walk 75 m. Again he turns his right and walk 100 m. And last he turn his left and walk 25m. If now he is walking in north di- rection. Then find from which direction he started?
(a)West
(b) East
(c) North
(d)North-East

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Answer: (a)West 
Solution:
 

Q-3. A man faces towards north, first he turns is 45° clockwise then he turns 90° Anticlockwise. At last he turns 135° clockwise. Now his face on which side?
(a)West
(b) East
(c) North
(d)North-East

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Answer: (b) East Solution: 

Q-4. A man walks in 1 km East. Now he turns south and walks 5 km again he turns East and walks 2 km. At last he turns north and walks 9 km. Now find that in which direction and how far he is from the initial point ?
(a) 3 km, South-West
(b) 5 km, East
(c) 5km, North East
(d) 5 km, West

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Answer: (c) 5km, North East Solution: In Triangle ABC AB = 3km BC : 4 km AC : √ (3)2 + (4) 2 √9+16 : √25 : 5km 5km, North East
 

Q-5. A is 6km West from B. And C is 4 km North from B. D is 12 km South from C. Now D in which direction and how far from A.
(a) 13 km
(b) 12 km
(c) 15 km
(d) 10 km

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Answer: (d) 10 km
Solution:
 
BD= 8 km 
BA= 6 km 
AD= √82+ 62 
= √64+36 
=√100 
=10 km