Straight Line and a Point

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Straight Line and a Point: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Perpendicular Distance of a Point from a Line, Distance of a Point from a Line Along Another Line, Right Angled Triangle & Obtuse Angled Triangle etc.

Important Questions on Straight Line and a Point

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The line 3x+2y=24 meets the y-axis at A & the x-axis at B. The perpendicular bisector of AB meets the line through (0, -1) parallel to x-axis at C. Then the area ( in square units ) of the triangle ABC is

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The equation of the perpendicular bisectors of the sides AB and AC of a  ΔABC are  xy+5=0  and  x+2y=0  respectively. If the point A is  1,2, then the equation of the line BC is.

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Suppose a triangle is formed by x+y=10 and the coordinate axes. Then the number of points x,y where x and y are natural numbers, lying inside the triangle is

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Look at the graph and answer the question.

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The blue triangle is at point -4, 5. What is at 4, -5? _____.

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The equation of a line though the point (1,2) whose distance from the point (3,1) has the greatest value is

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The perpendicular distance from the point 1,2 to common chord of the circles 2 x+4 y-4=0 and x2+y2+4x-6y-3=0 is units.

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The number of lines that can be drawn through the point 4, -5 at a distance of 10 units from the point 1, 3 is_______.

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If a square ABCD where A(0,0),B(2,0),C(2,2),D(0,2) undergoes the following transformations successively,

(i) f1(x,y)(y,x)
(ii) f2(x,y)(x+3y,y);

(iii) f3(x,y)x-y2,x+y2

Then the final figure would be a _______.

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If p1, p2 denote the lengths of perpendiculars from (2, 3) onto the lines given by 15x2+31xy+14y2=0, and if p1>p2, then p12+174-p22+113=

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If (α, β) is the image of the point (3, -4) with respect to the line 4x-y-1=0, then the value of β-α=__________

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If a point a, a falls between the lines |x+y|=4, then

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If the equation of a line which divides the line segment joining the points 1,0 and 3,0 in the ratio 2:1 and is also perpendicular to it, is ax=7, then the value of a is equal to

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If m and n are the lengths of the perpendicular from the origin to the straight lines whose equations are xcotθ-y=2cosθ and 4x+3y=-5cos2θ (θ(0,π)), respectively, then the value of m2+5n2 is

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If the points x,-3x and 3,4 lie on the opposite sides of the line 3x-4y=8, then

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Let S be the focus of parabola x2+8y=0 and Q be any point on it. If P divides the line segment SQ in the ratio 1 : 2, then the locus of P is

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Area of the triangle with vertices -2,2,1,5 and 6,-1 is

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The distance of the point 3,-5 from the line 3x-4y-26=0 is

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The area of a triangle is 5 sq units. Two of its vertices are 2,1 and 3,-2 . The third vertex lies on y=x+3 , then the coordinates of the third vertex can be

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If the points 2a,a,a,2a and a,a enclose a triangle of area 18 sq units, then the centroid of the triangle is equal to

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The ratio, in which the line joining the points -1,1 and 5,7 is divided by the line ​x+y=1 is