GETTING STARTED You will be given a printed copy of the grid on a sheet that you may stick into your book.
Stephenie is a Manhattan Island (New York, USA) taxi driver. Unlinke Australia, where most roads are curvy and have unpredictable name, in Manhatten, most of the streets and avenues are arranged in a grid of streets and avenues. Most of the streets and avenues names are numbers, such as 1st Street or 42nd Street, and 3rd Avenue or 5th Avenue.
A taxi driver is responsible for all passenger pick-ups in one area of a town. That area is shown on the chart below.
Later, when everything is quiet, she thought about all of the possible routes she could have taken to each pick-up point, and she wonders if she could have chosen a shorter route.
On the image below, imagine that the horizontal and vertical lines (the edges around each square) are roads. The taxi driver must stay on the lines at all times.
PROBLEM:
All trips must start/originate at the taxi stand in the upper-left-hand corner of the grid (See: Image 1.)
Solve the problem for yourself and develop a way to convince others that you have found all of the shortest routes.
Write down and explain your solution in your book.
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