Basics of Three Dimensional Coordinate System

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Basics of Three Dimensional Coordinate System: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, 3D Cartesian Coordinate System,Coordinate Axes in 3D,Coordinate Planes in 3D etc.

Important Questions on Basics of Three Dimensional Coordinate System

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OABCDE is a regular hexagon of side 2 units in the XY-plane in the Ist quadrant. O being the origin and OA taken along the X-axis. A point P is taken on a line parallel to Z-axis through the center of the hexagon at a distance of 3 units from O in the positive Z direction. The vector AP is 

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The octant in which the point 2,-4,-7 lies is

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For every point P(x, y, z) on the xy-plane,

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If x=1, y=2 and z=3, then how many points in R3 are there having co-ordinates x, y, z?

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Which of the following is a point in third octant?

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Which of the following is a point in first octant?

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The point 4,5,-6 lies in

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What will the coordinates of the point C.If the centroid of a triangle ABC is at the point (1, 1, 1) and the coordinates of A and B are (3, 5, 7) and (1, 7,  6), respectively.

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What will be the equation for the set of the points P such that the distances from the points A(3, 4,-5) and  B (-2, 1, 4) are equal? 

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The points A (1, 2, 3), B (1, 2, 1), C (2, 3, 2) and D (4, 7, 6) are the vertices of a:

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What will the ratio in which the line segment joining the points (4, 8, 10) and (6, 10,  8) is divided by the YZ-plane.

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What will be the coordinates of the centroid of the triangle whose vertices are (x1 , y1 , z1), (x2 , y2 , z2) and (x3 , y3 , z3).

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What will be the coordinates of the point which divides the line segment joining the points (1, 2, 3) and (3, 4, 5) in the ratio 2 : 3  externally.

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What will be the coordinates of the point which divides the line segment joining the points (1, 2, 3) and (3, 4, 5) in the ratio 2 : 3  internally.

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Find the distance between the points P(1, 3, 4) and Q ( 4, 1, 2).

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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the statement given below?

If A2, 3, 5 is the starting point, on moving 4 units from the point A along x-axis we moved to point B, from that point we moved 10 units parallel to positive y-axis to reach point C and then move 4 units upwards perpendicular to xy plane to reach the point D.

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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the statement given below?

If A0, 0, 0 is the starting point, on moving 4.5 units from the point A along y-axis to reach point B, from that point we moved 2.5 units parallel to positive z-axis to reach point C and then move 4 units along positive x-axis to reach the point D.

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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the statement given below?

If A0, 0, 0 is the starting point, on moving a units from the point A along z-axis to reach point B, from that point we moved b units parallel to positive x-axis to reach point C and then move c units along positive y-axis to reach the point D.

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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the statement given below?

If A0, 0, 0 is the starting point, on moving 2 units from the point A along z-axis to reach point B, from which we moved 3 units parallel to positive y-axis to reach point C and then move 4 units perpendicular to yz plane along the positive x-axis to reach the point D.

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Which one of the following statements is correct regarding the statement given below?

If A0, 0, 0 is the starting point, on moving 2 units from the point A along x-axis we moved to point B, from that point we moved 3 units parallel to y-axis and perpendicular ot xz plane to reach point C and then move 4 units perpendicular to xy plane to reach the point D.