2025 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 5
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Problem
Betty drives a truck to deliver packages in a neighborhood whose street map is shown below.
Betty starts at the factory (labled 
) and drives to location 
, then 
, then 
, before returning to . What is the shortest distance, in blocks, she can drive to complete the route?
![[asy] unitsize(20); add(grid(8,6)); path w = circle((0,0),0.4); fill(w, white); draw(w); label("$B$",(0,0)); fill(shift((2,4)) * w, white); draw(shift((2,4)) * w); label("$C$",(2,4)); fill(shift((7,3)) * w, white); draw(shift((7,3)) * w); label("$A$",(7,3)); fill(shift((6,5)) * w, white); draw(shift((6,5)) * w); label("$F$",(6,5)); draw((6,-0.2)--(7,-0.2), EndArrow(3)); draw((7,-0.2)--(6,-0.2), EndArrow(3)); draw(shift(6.5, -0.48) * scale(0.03) * texpath("1 block")); draw((8.2,1)--(8.2,2), EndArrow(3)); draw((8.2,2)--(8.2,1), EndArrow(3)); draw(shift(8.88, 1.5) * scale(0.03) * texpath("1 block")); [/asy]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/0/2/f/02f4d70dd8e934b785c58b9e171db52b9bca463e.png)
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| 2025 AMC 8 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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