Direction Sense - Solved Questions and Answers

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Direction Sense refers to an individual's innate or developed ability to perceive, interpret, and navigate spatial orientation effectively. It involves understanding directions (such as North, South, East, West), judging relative positions, and making accurate movement decisions based on environmental cues, maps, or mental mapping.

Directions, questions and answers are provided below for you to learn and practice.

Question 1: A person is moving north, and then he turns to his left and walks 10 meters, and then again, he turns right and walks 20 meters, and again, he turns right and walks 15 meters. What is the final direction in which he is moving?

Answer:
A person is moving towards the north, and then he turns to his left and walks 10 meters, which means now he is moving towards the west and has covered 10 meters of distance (left of north = west), and then he turns to the right and walks 20 meters, which means now he is moving towards the north and has covered 20 meters of distance (right of west = north), and then he turns to the right and walks 15 meters, which means now he is moving towards the east and has covered 20 meters of distance (right of North = east) That means the final direction in which the person is moving is east. For a better understanding, you can see the above image.

Question 2: From her home, Ruchi went 6.6 km to the south. Then she turned east and covered 6km. Then she turned to the north and covered 3.5km. Finally tuning to the west, she covered 5km. Then find the direction in which she is moving.

Answer. You can observe the Ruchi movement in the given below figure:
We can observe from the figure that Ruchi is moving in the west direction.

Question 3: A boy is facing south and then he turns 60° in the clockwise direction and then turns to 105° in the anticlockwise direction. In which direction now he is facing?

Answer:
The boy faces in the direction of AB. On moving 60° in the clockwise direction, he faces in the direction AC. On further moving 105° in the anticlockwise direction, he faces in the direction AD. Hence the boy is finally facing in a southeast direction.

Question 4: If the South becomes northwest, the East becomes southwest, and so on, then what will the North become?

Answer: Directions are changing by 135° in a clockwise direction. So the answer will be southeast as 90°+ 45° = 135° then, 90° of the north (Right of the north is east) is east and then 45° of the east (45° Right of the east is southeast) is southeast.