Cartesian Coordinate System

Author:Arun Sharma
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Important Questions on Cartesian Coordinate System

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 What will be the area of the rhombus ax ± by ± c = 0?

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How many points on x + y = 4 are there that lie at a unit distance from the line 4x + 3y = 10?

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If p is the length of the perpendicular from the origin to the line xa+yb=1, then which of the following is true?

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Find the value of k if the straight line 2x + 3y + 4 + k (6x - y + 12) = 0 is perpendicular to the line 7x + 5y = 4.

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Two sides of a square lie on the lines x + y = 1 and x + y + 2 = 0. What is its area?

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P (3, 1), Q (6, 5) and R (x, y) are three points such that the angle PRQ is a right angle and the area of PRQ is 7. The number of such points R that are possible is

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The equations of two equal sides AB and AC of an isosceles triangle ABC are x + y = 5 and 7x - y = 3 respectively. What will be the length of the intercept cut by the side BC on the y-axis?

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If the coordinates of the points A, B, C and D are (6, 3), (-3, -5), (4, -2) and (a, 3a) respectively and if the ratio of the area of triangles ABC and DBC is 2 : 1, then the value of a is

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If P and Q are two points on the line 3x + 4y = -15, such that OP=OQ = 9 units, the area of the triangle POQ will be

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If the points (a, 0), (0, b) and (1, 1) are collinear then which of the following is true?

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The extremities of a diagonal of a parallelogram are the points (3, -4) and (-6, 5). If the third vertex is the point (-2, 1), the coordinate of the fourth vertex is

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PQR is an isosceles triangle. If the coordinates of the base are  Q (1, 3) and R (-2, 7), then the coordinates of the vertex P can be

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The point of intersection of the lines xa+yb=1 and xb+ya=1 lies on the line.

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What are the points on x -axis whose perpendicular distance from the straight line xa+yb=1 is a?

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The area of triangle, formed by the points (p, 2-2p), (1-p, 2p) and (-4-p, 6-2p) is 70 units. How many integral values of p are possible?

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One side of the rectangle lies along the 4x+7y+5=0. Two of its vertices are (-3,1) and (1,1). Find the equation of other three sides.

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The area of a triangle is 5 square units. Two of its vertices are (2, 1) and (3, -2). The third vertex lies on y = x + 3. What will be the third vertex?

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A line passing through the points (α,2α) and (-2,3) is perpendicular to the line 4x+3y-7=0, find the value of α.

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What will be the value of p if the equation of straight line 2x + 5y = 4 gets changed to 2x + 5y = p after shifting the origin at (3, 3)?

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What will be the new equation of a straight line 3x + 4y = 6 if the origin gets shifted to (3,  4)