Angle Bisectors

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Angle Bisectors: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Bisectors of the Angles between Two Lines, To Discriminate between Acute and Obtuse Angle Bisector, Equation of Bisector between Two Lines, Bisector of the Angle between Two Lines Containing a Given Point, etc.

Important Questions on Angle Bisectors

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Given vertices A(1, 1), B(4,-2) & C(5, 5) of a triangle, find the equation of the perpendicular dropped from C to the interior bisector of the angle A.

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Equation of angle bisector between the lines 3x+4y-7=0 and 12x+5y+17=0 are

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If x cos α+y sin α-p=0, x cos α'+y sin α'-p'=0 are two intersecting straight lines, then show that the equations of the bisectors of the angles between the lines are:

x(cos α+cos α)+y(sin α+sin α)-(p+p)=0 and xcos α-cos α'+ysin α-sin α'-p-p'=0.

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The internal and external bisectors of the angles between two lines y=3x+3 and 3y=x+33 meet x-axis and y-axis at A and B respectively. Find the length of the line segment AB.

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Find the equations of the internal bisectors of the angles of the triangle formed by the straight line 3x-4y+12=0 and the axes of co-ordinates. Then verify that the internal bisectors of a triangle are concurrent

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The vertices of a triangle are A(1,7), B(-5,-1) and C(-1,2) . Then, the equation of the bisector of the ABC is

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If the pairs of straight lines x2-2pxy-y2=0 and x2-2qxy-y2=0 bisect the angles between each other, then which of the following is correct?

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Let P=(-1,0), Q=(0,0) and R=(3,33) be three point. The equation of the bisector of the angle PQR is
 

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A ray of light coming along the line 3x+4y-5=0 gets reflected from the line ax+by-1=0 and goes along the line 5x-12y-10=0, then

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If ax+y-16=0 and x+ay-6=0 represent two adjacent sides of a rhombus whose diagonals intersect at 3, 5 then sum of possible value of a is

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If Ax1,y1, Bx2,y2, Cx3,y3 are the vertices of the triangle then find the equation of angle bisector through A, where a,b,c units are the lengths of the sides opposite to the vertices A,B,C respectively.
 

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The incident ray is along the line 3x-4y-3=0 and the reflected ray is along the line 24x+7y+5=0. Find the equation of mirrors.

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Find the equation of the bisector of the obtuse angle between the lines 3x-4y+7=0 and 12x+5y-2=0.

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Find the area of the triangle formed by the straight line x+y=4 and angle bisectors of pair of lines x2+2y=1+y2:

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The equation of the angle bisector of the acute angle between the lines 3x+7=4y and 12x+5y=2 is given by

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 In a ABC, if A=(1, 2) and internal angle bisectors through C and B are y =-2x and y =x, Then the inradius r of ABC is :

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If r1-m2+mp-q=0, then find the bisector of angle between the lines represented by the equation px2-2rxy+qy2=0, (where m is slope of line y=mx)

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The point Q is symmetric to P(5, -2) with respect to the bisector of the first quadrant. The distance between the points P and Q is  _____

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The straight lines 3x-4y+7=0 and 12x+5y-2=0 has equation of the acute angle bisector as:

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The coordinates of the points on the line 3x+2y=5 which are equidistant from the lines 4x+3y-7=0 and 2y-5=0 can be