Coordinate Geometry
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Chapter Questions 208 MCQs
A 10 inches long pencil AB with mid point C and a small eraser P are placed on the horizontal top of a table such that PC = inches and . The acute angle through which the pencil must be rotated about C so that the perpendicular distance between eraser and pencil becomes exactly 1 inch is : 
(a) reflection about the line y=x.
(b) translation through 2 units along the positive direction of x-axis.
(c) rotation through angle about the origin in the anti-clockwise direction.
If the co-ordinates of the final position of the point P are , then the value of 2a+b is equal to :
A = ,
B = and
C = .
Then the minimum value of such that is
The equations of the sides AB, BC and CA of a triangle ABC are 2x + y = 0, x + py = 39 and x – y = 3, respectively and P(2, 3) is its circumcentre. Then which of the following is NOT true?
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x – 2y + 1 = 0 and 2x – y – 1 = 0 and whose orthocenter is (7/3, 7/3) is :
The equations of the sides AB, BC and CA of a triangle ABC are 2x + y = 0, x + py = 15a and x – y = 3, respectively. If its orthocentre is
then p is equal to _______.
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In a △ABC, suppose y = x is the equation of the bisector of the angle B and the equation of the side AC is 2x−y = 2. If 2AB = BC and the points A and B are respectively (4, 6) and (α, β), then α + 2β is equal to:
Let and . Let be the vertices of a triangle ABC, where is a parameter. If is the locus of the centroid of triangle ABC, then equals:
The function , defined by is:
If the circles intersect at exactly one point, then the sum of all possible values of is _______
Let , and be a vector such that Then is equal to ______
Let be the solution of the differential equation
If , then is equal to ________.
If the four distinct points , , and lie on a circle of radius , then is equal to
The shortest distance between the curves and is:
Let the equation have equal roots. The distance of the point from the line is
(S1): ABC is an isosceles right angled triangle, and
(S2): the area of is .
Consider the lines . If P is the point through which all these lines pass and the distance of L from the point is , then the distance of L from the point is , then the value of is
Let be the circle , and be two ellipses whose centres lie at the origin and major axes lie on the -axis and -axis respectively. Let the straight line touch the curves , , and at , , and respectively. Given that is the mid-point of the line segment and , the value of is equal to
The length of the latus-rectum of the ellipse, whose foci are and and eccentricity is , is
Let the three sides of a triangle are on the lines .
Then the distance of its orthocentre from the orthocentre of the triangle formed by the lines
is
(S2): the area of is .
Let be the solution of the differential equation , then is equal to ________.
For some , let , where , .
Then is equal to:
(S2): If positive numbers are three consecutive terms of an A.P., then the lines are concurrent at .
A circle meets coordinate axes at 3 points and cuts equal intercepts. If it cuts a chord of length unit on , then square of its radius is (centre lies in first quadrant):
If divides this focal chord internally in the ratio , then the minimum value of is equal to
Let be a triangle. Consider four points on the side , five points on the side , and four points on the side . None of these points is a vertex of the triangle . Then the total number of pentagons that can be formed by taking all the vertices from the points is ___________.
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