Distance Formula
Important Questions on Distance Formula
and are the vertices of a

A straight road is at a distance of miles from a place. The shortest distance of the road from the place is in the direction. Do the following villages which is miles East and miles North from the place, lie on the road or not?

The distance of the point from the line measured parallel to the line is

Two particles start from the same point one moving units along the line and the other units alongIf the particles move towards increasing , find their new positions and the distance between them.

A straight road is at a distance of miles from a place. The shortest distance of the road from the place is in the direction. Do the following villages which is miles East and miles North from the place, lie on the road or not ?

Let and lies on -axis such that is minimum, then divides .

A man starts from the point and reaches point touching -axis at such that is minimum,
then

Let and are points which are symmetric to points and respectively with respect to -axis, then area of the quadrilateral is

The distance between two parallel lines is unity. A point lies between the two lines at a distance from one of them. is an equilateral triangle having side and vertex on one of the parallel lines and on the other line, then

and are two given points. and are points which are symmetric to the given points and respectively with respect to -axis. Calculate the perimeter of the trapezium .

and are two points. The lines are produced to and respectively such that and . Find .

