SOLUTION: A person facing south takes a quarter turn to her left. She then walks 10 paces straight ahead and stops.She rotates 180 degrees and walks another 10 paces straight ahead. After

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Question 1109053: A person facing south takes a quarter turn to her left. She then walks 10 paces straight ahead and stops.She rotates 180 degrees and walks another 10 paces straight ahead.
After following these directions, this person is
20 paces from where she started and is facing west
20 paces from where she started and is facing east
In the same place as where she started and is facing east
In the same place as where she started and is facing west

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Think of this as a bird's-eye view:

>>A person facing south...
She is at the red dot above, facing south (downward)

>>...takes a quarter turn to her left...

Now she's still at the red dot, but since she turned a quarter turn,
(that is, counter-clockwise, 90° to HER left, (OUR right), she's now 
facing east (OUR right).

>>...She then walks 10 paces straight ahead and stops...

Now she has walked 10 paces along the green line.

>>...She rotates 180 degrees...

Now she's facing west (our left).

>>...and walks another 10 paces straight ahead...

Now she has walked 10 paces along the same green line
and now she's right back where she started, but now she's facing 
west (our left).   

Edwin