{"id":164241,"date":"2024-03-13T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=164241"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:33:46","slug":"a-person-starts-from-a-point-a-and-travels-3-km-eastwards-to-b-and-then-turns-left-and-travels-thrice-that-distance-to-reach-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-person-starts-from-a-point-a-and-travels-3-km-eastwards-to-b-and-then-turns-left-and-travels-thrice-that-distance-to-reach-c\/","title":{"rendered":"A person starts from a point A and travels 3 km eastwards to B and then turns left and travels thrice that distance to reach C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A person starts from a point A and travels 3 km eastwards to B and then turns left and travels thrice that distance to reach C. He again turns left and travels five times the distance he covered between A and B and reaches his destination D. The shortest distance between the starting point and the destination is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"list-style-type:upper-alpha\">\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>15 km<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18 km<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12 km<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16 km<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movement of the person are as shown in fig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly AB = 3 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-1024x946.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164242\" style=\"width:163px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-1024x946.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-768x709.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-1536x1419.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-2048x1892.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-162x150.png 162w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-100x92.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-379x350.png 379w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38-788x727.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-38.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-1024x617.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164243\" style=\"width:196px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-1024x617.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-767x462.png 767w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-1536x925.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-2048x1234.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-249x150.png 249w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-100x60.png 100w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-581x350.png 581w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39-788x474.png 788w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-39.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person starts from a point A and travels 3 km eastwards to B and then turns left and travels thrice that distance to reach C. He again turns left and travels five times the distance he covered between A and B and reaches his destination D. The shortest distance between the starting point and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":164244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5204],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-164241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reasoning","tag-reasoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164245,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164241\/revisions\/164245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164241"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=164241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}