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Grade 5HardThe Coordinate Plane

The Coordinate Plane · Hard problem

On a town grid, each unit is one block. A bus leaves its garage at (2,3)(2, 3), drives to a school at (9,3)(9, 3), then to a park at (9,11)(9, 11), and then back to the garage. It only drives along the grid streets and always takes a shortest route. How many blocks does it drive in all?