Problem 1 · 2024 Math Kangaroo
Easy
Logic & Word Problems
spatial-reasoninggrid
Kangaroo Joey wants to jump through the maze. Joey starts in the square at the bottom left (see picture). The number of arrows in a square tells how long the jump must be: a square with three arrows means Joey jumps over two squares in the direction of the arrows and lands in the third square.
Where will Joey leave the maze?
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Answer: B — B
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Hint 1 of 2
Start in the bottom-left square and follow the arrows one jump at a time, counting squares carefully.
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Hint 2 of 2
Treat each square as an instruction: the arrow gives the direction and the number of arrows gives how many squares to advance; see which edge you eventually step off.
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Approach: trace the path square by square
- Begin on the bottom-left square and read its arrows: move in the arrow's direction by as many squares as there are arrows (three arrows = land in the third square).
- Repeat from each square you land on, always obeying the new square's arrows.
- Following the chain of jumps, Joey is carried to the edge of the grid and exits through the side marked B.
- So Joey leaves the maze at B.
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