Analysis: As can be seen from the picture, from Xiaohong's home to Mingming's home, mainly to the bookstore, school, children's palace, and then back, then * * * has two roads, that is, from home-bookstore-school-Mingming's home, home-bookstore-children's palace-Mingming's home.

Then according to the road map, we can know the distance between them, so the route through the school is the shortest, so we can use the meaning of addition to add up the distances of the first route.

Answer: 204+398+327=929 (meters)

204+428+368= 1000 (m)

1000——929=7 1 (m)

Therefore, the road through the school is relatively short, nearly 7 1 meter.

Related questions:

On Sunday morning, Xiaoming is going to post letters, buy books and food, and then go home. First, through estimation, which way is the shortest for Xiao Ming? What is the nearest total distance? Please ask another question and answer it.

2.( 1) How many roads are there from Hongjia to Children's Palace? How to get there? How many meters are they?

(2) How to get closer from the swimming pool to the park? How many meters is it?

(3) Ask your own questions and answer them yourself.

On Sunday, Honghong went to Lele's house to be a guest. Which is the shortest way? Why?

There are two ways for Xiao Ming to go to school. Tell me which way is near and which way is far. Why?

On Saturday morning, Honghong is going to the post office. Which is the shortest way? Why?