Question

Jasmine creates a map of her town on the coordinate plane. The unit on the coordinate plane is one block.

The locations of the school, post office, and library are given. school (-4,1)
post office (2,1)
library (2,-4)
Move the points of each building to its correct location on the coordinate plane. Jasmine walks from the school to the post office and then to the library.

What is the total distance, in blocks, of her walk?

Answer 1

Jasmine walks from the school to the post office, which is a distance of $2 - (-4) = 6$ blocks horizontally and 0 blocks vertically, so the distance is 6 blocks. Then she walks from the post office to the library, which is a distance of $2 - 2 = 0$ blocks horizontally and $-4 - 1 = -5$ blocks vertically, so the distance is 5 blocks.

The total distance of Jasmine's walk is the sum of the distances of each leg of her journey, which is $6 + 5 = 11$ blocks. Therefore, Jasmine walks 11 blocks in total.