Answer:
Option (1).
Explanation:
In the figure attached,
Houses of three friends Jo, Boris and Carrie are located at the vertices of a triangle.
They want to meet at a place which equidistant from these vertices.
A point in a triangle which is equidistant from the vertices is its Circumcenter.
A circumcenter of a triangle is a point of intersection of perpendicular bisectors of its sides.
Therefore, the next step to find the meeting place should be,
Option (1). They should find the midpoint of the segments which connect their houses.