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SHEET : 4 STRAIGHT LINE

LEVEL - I
1. The straight line L is perpendicular to the line 5x – y = 1. The area of the triangle formed by the line L and
coordinate axes is 5. Then the equation of the line will be -
(A) x + 5y = 5 2 or x + 5y = – 5 2 (B) x – 5y = 5 2 or –x + 5y = 5 2
(C) x + 4y = 5 2 or x– 2y = 5 2 (D) 2x + 5y = 5 2 or x + 5y = 5 2

2. The equation of the line which passes through (a cos3, a sin3) and perpendicular to the line x sec +
ycosec = a is -
(A) x cos + y sin = 2a cos2 (B) x sin – y cos = 2a sin2
(C) x sin + y cos = 2a cos2 (D) xcos – y sin = a cos2

3. If the line passing through the points (4, 3) and (2, ) is perpendicular to the line y = 2x +3, then  is equal to -
(A) 4 (B) –4 (C) 1 (D) –1

4. The acute angle between the lines y  3 and y  3x  9 is

(a) 30o (b) 60o (c) 45o (d) 90o

5. The angle between the lines y  (2  3)x  5 and y  (2  3)x  7 is

(a) 30o (b) 60o (c) 45o (d) 90o

6. The angle between the lines whose intercepts on the axes are a, – b and b, – a respectively, is
a 2  b2 b 2  a2 b 2  a2
(a) tan 1 (b) tan 1 (c) tan 1 (d) None of these
ab 2 2ab
x y
7. The points on the x-axis whose perpendicular distance from the line   1 is a, are
a b
a 2 2  b 2 2 
(a)  (b  a  b ), 0 (b)  (b  a  b ), 0
b  a 
a 
(c)  (a  a 2  b 2 ), 0  (d) None of these
b 
x y
8. The length of the perpendicular from the point (b,a) to the line   1 , is
a b
a2  ab  b2 b2  ab  a2 a2  ab  b2
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
a 2  b2 a2  b2 a 2  b2

9. If the coordinates of the vertices A, B, C of the triangle ABC be (  4, 2), (12, 2) and (8, 6) respectively,
then  B =
 6 6  7 7
(a) tan1    (b) tan 1   (c) tan1    (d) tan 1  
 7 7  6 6

10. If the lines y  3x  1 and 2y  x  3 are equally inclined to the line y  mx  4, then m =
1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 5 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
7 7 7 7

LEVEL - 2

11. The angle between the lines x cos 1  y sin 1  p1 and x cos  2  y sin  2  p 2 is
(a) ( 1   2 ) (b) ( 1   2 ) (c) 21 (d) 22

12. If vertices of a parallelogram are respectively (0, 0), (1, 0), (2, 2) and (1, 2), then angle between diagonals is
(a)  / 3 (b)  / 2 (c) 3 / 2 (d)  / 4

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13. The distance between the lines 3x  4y  9 and 6x  8y  15 is
(a) 3/2 (b) 3/10 (c) 6 (d) None of these

14. The distance of the point of intersection of the lines 2x  3y  5  0 and 3x  4y  0 from the line 5x  2y  0 is
130 13 130
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
17 29 7 29 17

15. The point on the line x  y  4 which lie at a unit distance from the line 4x  3y  10 , are
(a) (3, 1),( 7, 11) (b) (3, 1),(7, 11) (c) ( 3, 1),( 7, 11) (d) (1, 3),( 7, 11)

16. Two equal sides of an isosceles triangle are given by the equations 7x  y + 3 = 0 and x + y  3 = 0 & its third
side passes through the point (1, 10). Determine the equation of the third side.

17. Find the equations of the lines which pass through (4, 5) and make equal angle with the lines
5y = 12x + 6 and 3x = 4y + 7.

18. The acute angl e between the medi an s drawn f rom the acute angl es of an i so scel es right
angl ed triangle is :
(A) cos 1 (2/3) (B) cos 1 (3/4) (C) cos 1 (4/5) (D) none

19. Consider the point A(3,4) and B(7,13) . If ‘P’ be a point of the line y = x such that PA + PB
is minimum then coordinates of ‘P’ is
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ANSWER KEY – SHEET - 4

1. B
 D
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. D
11. B
12. D
13. B
14. A
15. A
16. x  3y  31 = 0 or 3x + y + 7 = 0
17. 9x – 7y = 1, 7x + 9y = 73
18. C
 31 31 
19. 7,7 
 
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