If North-East becomes South, what will North become?

On the standard 8-point compass, each direction sits at a fixed bearing measured clockwise from North, spaced 45° apart: North (0°), North-East (45°), East (90°), South-East (135°), South (180°), South-West (225°), West (270°), North-West (315°). When a problem says one direction "becomes" another, every direction on the compass has been rotated by the SAME fixed angle, in the SAME rotational sense — so once that one angle is found from the given pair, applying it to any other direction gives that direction's new position.

1. Read off the bearings of the two given directions: North-East = 45°, South = 180°.

2. Find the rotation that carries the first into the second: 180° − 45° = 135°, applied clockwise — three 45° steps (North-East → East → South-East → South).

3. Apply the same 135° clockwise rotation to North's own bearing: 0° + 135° = 135°.

4. Match 135° back to a compass point: 135° is South-East.

Cross-check: 135° is an exact multiple of the 45° spacing between the eight standard directions, so the rotation lands precisely on a named point rather than between two points — confirming 135° clockwise is the consistent transformation.

So North becomes South-East.