From home, Todd walked 3 blocks south and 2 blocks east to a friend's house.Then they walked 6 blocks west to school. He cannot cut across blocks. How many blocks from school does Todd live?
3 + 4 = 7
To find out how many blocks from school Todd lives, we need to visualize the situation. Let's break it down step by step.
1. Todd starts at his home.
2. He walks 3 blocks south from his home.
3. Then he walks 2 blocks east to his friend's house.
4. After visiting his friend, he walks 6 blocks west to school.
To determine the final distance, we need to cancel out the north-south movements and consider only the east-west movements.
From Todd's home to his friend's house, he walks 3 blocks south and 2 blocks east. This can be illustrated as:
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H represents Todd's home and F represents his friend's house.
From his friend's house, he walks 6 blocks west to school. So, considering only the east-west movement, we can update the diagram:
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S represents the school.
Given the diagram, we can see that Todd's home is 8 blocks west from the school. Therefore, Todd lives 8 blocks from school.