You are given directions to a friend's house from your school

Physics Feb 05, 2021

You are given directions to a friend's house from your school. They read: "Go east one block, turn north and go 4 blocks, turn west and go 1 block, then go south for 2 blocks." Usi ng your school as the origin, draw a map of these directions on a coordinate plane.

What are the coordinates of your friend's house?

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Answer:(0,2)

Explanation:

Take origin (0,0) as point A and when you move one block east to point B then coordinates becomes (1,0)

Now you move 4 blocks north to point C then the coordinates of point C becomes (4,1)

Similarly, You move 1 block west to point D such that its co-ordinates becomes (0,4)

Finally you move from D to E, 2 blocks south such that point E becomes (0,2)

So, E is the friend's house and its coordinates are (0,2)

It can be diagramatically be represented by figure given below

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