SOLUTION: A truck driver needs to make four deliveries, all on the same street where his warehouse is located. He drives south 6 blocks, north 2 blocks, south 1 block, and north 8 blocks bef
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Question 1011018: A truck driver needs to make four deliveries, all on the same street where his warehouse is located. He drives south 6 blocks, north 2 blocks, south 1 block, and north 8 blocks before driving back to the warehouse. How many blocks does he need to drive from his last delivery to get back to the warehouse?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Well if we call driving north positive and driving south negative, we have
-6 + 2 - 1 + 8 = 3
That means he ends up 3 blocks north of where he started.
Thus he will drive 3 blocks south to get back to the warehouse.
