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3d Geometry

33 previous year questions.

Volume: 33 Ques
Yield: High

High-Yield Trend

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2019
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Chapter Questions
33 MCQs

01
PYQ 2010
medium
mathematics ID: met-2010
The direction cosines of any normal to the xy-plane are
1
1, 0, 0
2
0, 1, 0
3
1, 1, 0
4
0, 0, 1
02
PYQ 2010
medium
mathematics ID: met-2010
If , then at is
1

2

3

4
0
03
PYQ 2010
medium
mathematics ID: met-2010
The locus of the equation is
1
a pair of straight lines
2
a pair of parallel lines
3
a pair of perpendicular planes
4
None of the above
04
PYQ 2010
medium
mathematics ID: met-2010
The tangent and normal to a rectangular hyperbola at a point cut off intercepts on one axis and on the other, then is equal to
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
0
05
PYQ 2015
medium
mathematics ID: met-2015
The image of the point in the plane , is
1

2

3

4

06
PYQ 2015
medium
mathematics ID: met-2015
Equation of the plane that contains the lines and , is
1

2

3

4
None of these
07
PYQ 2015
medium
mathematics ID: met-2015
The distance of the point from the line measured parallel to the plane , is
1
2
2
3
3
6
4
7
08
PYQ 2015
medium
mathematics ID: met-2015
The equation of the plane through the intersection of the planes and and parallel to X-axis, is
1

2

3

4

09
PYQ 2016
medium
mathematics ID: met-2016
A line passing through origin and is perpendicular to two given lines and . The ratio in which the origin divides this line, is
1
1 : 2
2
2 : 1
3
4 : 2
4
4 : 3
10
PYQ 2016
medium
mathematics ID: met-2016
The vector equation of the plane through the point and perpendicular to the line of intersection of the planes and is
1

2

3

4
None of the above
11
PYQ 2016
medium
mathematics ID: met-2016
The equation of the plane passing through the line of intersection of the planes and and perpendicular to the plane is
1

2

3

4

12
PYQ 2016
medium
mathematics ID: met-2016
If is the image of the point under the reflection in the plane , then the equation of the line is
1

2

3

4

13
PYQ 2016
medium
mathematics ID: met-2016
The equation of the plane through the points and parallel to X-axis is
1

2

3

4

14
PYQ 2016
medium
mathematics ID: met-2016
The direction cosines of two lines are connected by the relations and , then the angle between them is
1

2

3

4
0
15
PYQ 2017
medium
mathematics ID: met-2017
If the position vectors of A, B, C are respectively , and , then the projection of on is equal to
1
2
3
4

16
PYQ 2017
medium
mathematics ID: met-2017
, . If and are mutually perpendicular, then value of is
1
2
3
4

17
PYQ 2017
medium
mathematics ID: met-2017
If are the angles which a half ray makes with the positive direction of the axes, then is equal to
1
2
3
4

18
PYQ 2017
medium
mathematics ID: met-2017
If the projection of on OX, OY, OZ are respectively 12, 3 and 4, then the magnitude of is
1
2
3
4

19
PYQ 2017
medium
mathematics ID: met-2017
If are any three mutually perpendicular vectors of equal magnitude a, then
1
2
3
4

20
PYQ 2017
medium
mathematics ID: met-2017
The volume of the parallelepiped whose sides are given by , , is
1
cu unit
2
cu unit
3
cu unit
4
None of these
21
PYQ 2018
medium
mathematics ID: met-2018
If , , are the position vectors of , , respectively such that , then divides in the ratio
1
4:3
2
4:7
3
3:7
4
3:4
22
PYQ 2018
medium
mathematics ID: met-2018
If are the direction cosines of a line, then the value of is
1
2
3
4

23
PYQ 2018
medium
mathematics ID: met-2018
A parallelogram is constructed on the vectors , . If and the angle between and is , then the length of a diagonal of the parallelogram is
1
2
3
4
None of these
24
PYQ 2018
medium
mathematics ID: met-2018
The work done by the force in moving a particle along a straight line from the point to is
1
0 unit
2
4 unit
3
15 unit
4
19 unit
25
PYQ 2018
medium
mathematics ID: met-2018
The area of a parallelogram with diagonals and is
1
2
3
4

26
PYQ 2018
medium
mathematics ID: met-2018
If , then and are
1
parallel
2
perpendicular
3
at angle
4
at angle
27
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
The direction cosines of any normal to the xy-plane are
1
1, 0, 0
2
0, 1, 0
3
1, 1, 0
4
0, 0, 1
28
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
If and are non-collinear vectors such that for some scalars , , then
1
2
3
4

29
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
A perpendicular is drawn from the point P(2, 4, -1) to the line . The equation of the perpendicular from P to the given line is
1
2
3
4

30
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
If , and , then is
1
2
0
3
4

31
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
If a line makes with the positive direction of x, y and z-axes respectively. Then, is equal to
1
2
3
4
1
32
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
If P(3,4,5), Q(4,6,3), R(-1,2,4), S(1,0,5), then the projection of RS on PQ is
1
2
3
4
2
33
PYQ 2019
medium
mathematics ID: met-2019
The projection of a line on a co-ordinate axes are 2, 3, 6. Then the length of the line is
1
7
2
5
3
1
4
11

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