IRP BT-NM

STRAIGHT LINES & PAIR LINES

Exercise # 1
1. If the straight lines 2x  y  5  0 and 4x  2y  15  0 are the tangents to a circle, then radius of the circle is equal to
5 5
(A) (B) 5 (C) (D) none of these
2 4

2. If 3a  2b  5c  0, family of straight lines ax  by  c  0 are always concurrent at a point whose coordinate is

3 2  3 2 3 2  3 2
(A)  ,  (B)  ,  (C)  ,  (D)  ,  
5 5  5 5 5 5  5 5

3. The diagonals AC and BD of a rhombus intersect at (5, 6). If A   3 , 2  , then equation of diagonal BD is
(A) yx 1 (B) 2y  x  17 (C) y  2x  4  0 (D) 2y  x  17

4. The coordinates of the mid points of the sides of triangle ABC are (3, 4),  2, 21 ,  5 , 0  , then triangle ABD, where D is the
midpoint of BC, is
(A) Isosceles (B) Equilateral (C) Right angled (D) none of these

5. Consider the straight line ax  by  c, where a, b, c  R  . This lines meets the coordinate axes at ‘P’ and ‘Q’ respectively. If
the area of triangle OPQ ‘O’ being origin, does not depend upon a, b and c, then
(A) a, b, c are in G.P. (B) a, c, b are in G.P (C) a, b, c are in A.P (D) a, c, b are in A.P

6. Locus of a point that is equidistant from the lines x  y  2 2  0 and x  y  2  0 is

(A) x  y 5 2  0 (B) x  y 3 2  0 (C) 2x  2y  3 2  0 (D) 2x  2y  5 2  0

7. The area enclosed by x  1  y  3  1 is equal to

(A) 4 [Link] (B) 6 sq units (C) 1 sq units (D) 2 [Link]

x y x y
8. Point of intersection of the variable lines  1 and   1 lies on
a b b a
(A) xy 0 (B) xy0 (C) 2x  y  0 (D) 2x  y  0

9. The extremities of the base of an isosceles triangle are (2, 0) and (0, 2). If the equation of one of the equal sides is x  2,
then equation of other equal side is
(A) x  y  2 (B) x  y  2  0 (C) y  2 (D) 2x  y  2

10. If the lines x  2y  3  0 , 3y  2x  5  0 and x  5y  a  0 are concurrent, then

(A) a  2 (B) a  1/ 2 (C) a  1 (D) none of these

11. The nearest point on the line 3x  4y  12 from the origin is

 36 48   3  3
(A)  ,  (B) 3 ,  (C) 2 ,  (D) none of these
 25 25   4  2

12. A variable lines is drawn through the intersection points of the lines 3x  4y  12  0 and x  2y  5  0, meeting the
coordinate axes at the points A and B. Locus of mid – point of segment AB is
(A) 4x  3y  4xy (B) 3x  4y  3xy (C) 3x  4y  4xy (D) none of these

13. Image of the point P (1, 5) with respect to the line 4x  3y  6  0 is

 19 13   13 19   191 113 
(A)  ,  (B)  ,  (C)  7 ,  1 (D)  , 
 25 25   25 25   25 25 

14. The straight line ax  by  c  0 where abc  0 will pass through the first quadrant if
(A) ac  0, bc  0 (B) ac  0 and bc  0 (C) bc  0 and/or ac > 0 (D) ac < 0 and/or bc < 0

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15. The straight line 3x  4y  12  0 meets the coordinate axes at A and B. An equilateral triangle ABC is constructed. One
possible co-ordinate of vertex ‘C’ is
  3 3  2 4    3 
(A)  2  1   , 1  (B)  2 1  3  , 1  3  
  4  3 3    2 
  3 
(C)  2 1  3  , 1  3   (D) none of these
 2 

16. The incentre of the triangle with vertices 1 , 3  ,  0 , 0  and  2 , 0  is

 3 2 1   1  2 3
(A)  1,  (B) 3 ,  (C) 1 ,  (D)  , 
 2  3  3 3 2 

17. AA1 is the median of triangle ABC where A (2, 2) , B (6, -1) and C (7, 3). The equation of the line parallel to AA 1 and passing
through (1, -1) is
(A) 2x  9y  7  0 (B) 2x  9y  11  0 (C) 2x  9y  11  0 (D) 2x  9y  7  0

18. The diagonals of a parallelogram are along the lines x  3y  4 and 6x  2y  7. Then parallelogram must be a
(A) Square (B) Rectangle (C) Cyclic quadrilateral (D) Rhombus

19. If A 1 , 2  , B  4 , 6  , C  5 , 7  and D  a , b  are the vertices of a parallelogram, then

(A) a2,b3 (B) a2,b4 (C) a3,b4 (D) a3,b5

20. If the vertices of a triangle are rational points, which of the following points of the triangle is not necessarily a rational point
(A) Centroid (B) Circumcentre (C) Orthocentre (D) Incentre

 5
21. If the intersection point of the straight lines represented by x 2  2xy  4y 2  2ax  8y  c  0 is  1 ,   , then
 4
1 19 1 19 1 19 1 17
(A) a   , c   (B) a   , c  (C) a  , c  (D) a   , c 
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

22. If co-ordinate axes are the angle bisectors of the pair of lines ax 2  2hxy  by 2  0, then
(A) ab  0 (B) a2  b  0 (C) h  0 (D) b2  a  0

23. P (x, y) is called a good point if x, y  N. Total number of good points lying inside the quadrilateral formed by the line
2x  y  2, x  0, y  0 , 𝑥 + 𝑦 = 5 is equal to
(A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 10 (D) 6

24. If the point P  a 2 , a  lies in the region corresponding to the acute angle between the lines 2y  x and 4y  x, then
(A) a   2 , 6 (B) a  4 , 6 (C) a  2 , 4 (D) none of these

25. If the algebraic sum of distances of points (2, 1), (3, 2) and (-4, 7) from the line y  mx  c is zero, then this line will always
pass through a fixed point whose co-ordinate is
 10 
(A) (1, 3) (B) (1, 10) (C) (1, 6) (D)  1 , 
 3

Exercise # 2

1. Let O ≡ (0 , 0), 𝐴 ≡ (0 , 4), 𝐵 ≡ (6 , 0).’P’ be a moving point such that area of triangle POA is 2 times the area of triangle
POB. Locus of ‘P’ will be straight line whose equation can be
(A) x  2y  0 (B) x  3y  0 (C) 2x  3y  0 (D) 2x  3y  0

2. The lines x  2y  3  0, x  2y  7  0 and 2x  y  4  0 are the sides of a square. Equation of the remaining sides of the
square can be
(A) 2x  y  14  0 (B) 2x  y  8  0 (C) 2x  y  10  0 (D) 2x  y  6  0

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3. ABCD is a square A  1 , 2  , B   3 ,  4  . If lines CD passes through (3, 8), then midpoint of CD is

 24 1 
(A) (2, 6) (B) (6, 2) (C) (2, 5) (D)  , 
 25 5 

4. Area of the triangle formed by the lines y  ax, x  y  a and y-axis is equal to
1 a2 1 a a2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 1 a 1 a 2 1 a 2 1 a

5. The straight lines 7x  2y  10  0 and 7x  2y  10  0 forms an isosceles triangle with the line y  2. Area of the triangle is
equal to
15 10 18
(A) [Link] (B) [Link] (C) [Link] (D) none of these
7 7 7

6. Equation of the bisector of obtuse angle between the lines 3x  4y  7  0 and 12x  5y  2  0 is
(A) 11x  3y  9  0 (B) 11x  3y  9  0 (C) 21x  77y  101  0 (D) 21x  77y  101  0

7. If x  2y  4  0 and 2x  y  5  0 are the sides of an isosceles triangle having area 10 [Link], then equation of the third
side is
(A) x  3y  19 (B) 3x  y  11  0 (C) x  3y  10 (D) 3x  y  15  0

8. A variable line drawn through the point (1, 3) meets the x-axis at A and y-axis at B. If the rectangle OAPB is completed,
where ‘O’ is the origin, then locus of ‘P’ is
1 3 1 3
(A)  1 (B) x  3y  1 (C)  1 (D) 3x  y  1
y x x y

9. A line is drawn perpendicular to the line y  5x, meeting the co-ordinate axes at A and B. If the area of triangle OAB is 10 sq.
unit where ‘O’ is the origin, then equation of drawn line is
(A) x  5y  10 (B) x  5y  10 (C) x  4y  10 (D) x  4y  10

 1 
10. OAB is an equilateral triangle where O   0 , 0  , A   1 ,  . The coordinate of point B can be
 3
 2   1   1   1 
(A)  , 0 (B) 1 ,  (C) 0 ,  (D)  1 ,  
 3   3  3  3

11. ABC is a right angled isosceles triangle, right angled at A (2, 1). If the equation of side BC is 2x  y  3, then the combined
equation of lines AB and AC is
(A) 3x 2  3y 2  8xy  20x  10y  25  0 (B) 3x 2  3y 2  8xy  20x  10y  25  0
(C) 3x 2  3y 2  8xy  10x  15y  20  0 (D) none of these

12. A rectangle ABCD has its side AB parallel to line y  x and vertices A, B and D lie on y  1 , x  2 and x  2 respectively.
Locus of vertex C is
(A) x  5 (B) x  y  5 (C) y  5 (D) x  y  5

13. A triangle ABC; A 1 , 1 , B  4 ,  2  C  5 , 5  . Equation of the internal angle bisector of A is

(A) y 1 (B) xy 1 (C) x 1 (D) xy 1

14. If the straight lines a1x  b1y  c1  0, a1x  b1y  c 2  0 , a2 x  b2 y  d1  0 and a2 x  b2 y  d2  0 are the sides of rhombus then
(A)  a  b  c  c   a  b   d  d 
2
2
2
2 1 2
2 2
1
2
1 1 2
2
(B) a2
1  b12  d1  d2   a22  b22  c1  c 2

(C) a22  b22   d1  d2    a12  b12   c1  c 2  (D) a2

1  b12  c1  c 2   a22  b22  d1  d2

15. Consider the family of lines 5x  3y  2  1  3x  y  4   0, and x  y  1   2  2x  y  2   0. Equation of straight line that
belong to both families is

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(A) 25x  62y  86  0 (B) 62x  25y  86  0 (C) 25x  62y  86 (D) 5x  2y  7  0

16. 1 and 2 are the inclinations of lines L1 and L 2 with x-axis. If L1 and L2 with x-axis. If L1 and L2 pass through P  x1 , y1  , the
equation of one of the angle bisector of these lines is
x  x1 y  y1 x  x1 y  y1
(A)  (B) 
 1  2   1  2   1  2   1  2 
cos   sin    sin   cos  
 2   2   2   2 
x  x1 y  y1 x  x1 y  y1
(C)  (D) 
 1  2   1  2   1  2   1  2 
sin   cos    sin   cos  
 2   2   2   2 

17. If the straight lines ax 2  2hxy  by 2  2gx  2fy  c  0 intersect on the x-axis then
(A) ag = fh (B) ah = fg (C) af = gh (D) none of these

18. A light ray coming along the line 3x  4y  5, gets reflected from the line ax  by  1 and goes along the line 5x  12y  10
then
64 112 14 8 64 8
(A) a  ,b (B) a  ,b (C) a  ,b (D) none of these
115 5 15 115 115 115

19. Area of a Rhombus is 10 sq. units its diagonals intersect at (0, 0). If one vertex of the rhombus is (3, 4), then one of the
other vertices can be
4 3 4 3 3 4
(A)  ,   (B)  ,  (C)  ,  (D) none of these
5 5 5 5 5 5

20. The centroid of an equilateral triangle is (0, 0). If two vertices of the triangle lie on x  y  2 2, then one of them will have its
co-ordinate as
(A)  2  6 , 2  6 (B)  2  3 , 2  3 (C)  2  5 , 2  5 (D) none of these

21. If the point 1  cos  , sin   lies between the region corresponding to the acute angle between the lines 3y  x and 6y  x,
then
(A)   R (B)   R ~ n, n  I

(C)   R ~  2n  1 , n  I (D) none of these
2

22. A rectangle ABCD, A   0 , 0  , B   4 , 0  , C   4 , 2  , D   0 , 2  undergoes the following transformation successively

(i) f1  x , y    y , x 
(ii) f2  x , y    x  3y, y 
(iii) 𝑓 (𝑥 , 𝑦) → ,
The final figure will be
(A) A square (B) A rhombus (C) A rectangle (D) A parallelogram

23. Consider a family of straight lines  x  y     2x  y  1  0 . Equation of the straight line belonging to this family that is
farthest from (1, -3) is
(A) 13𝑦 + 6𝑥 = 7 (B) 15y  6x  7 (C) 13y  6x  7 (D) 15y  6x  7

24. The sides of a rectangle are x  0 , y  0, x  4 , y  3.

1
The equation of a straight line having slope that divides the rectangle in to two equal halves, is
2
(A) 2y  x  1 (B) 2x  y  1 (C) 2y  x  1 (D) 2x  y  1

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25. In the given figure combined equation of the incident and the refracted ray is
( P(2,0) )
4 
(A)  x  2   y 2  x  2 y  0
2

3
4
(B)  x  2   y 2   x  2 y  0
2

3
4 
(C)  x  2   y 2  x  2 y  0
2

3
(D) none of these

Exercise # 3

1. Consider the points A 1  x1 , y1  , A 2  x 2 , y 2  and A 3  x 3 , y 3  . If 𝑥 , 𝑥 , 𝑥 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦 , 𝑦 , 𝑦 are in G.P with same common ratio,
then the points A1 , A 2 , A 3 are
(A) Vertices of an equilateral triangle (B) Vertices of a right angle triangle
(C) Vertices of an isosceles triangle (D) None of these

2. If the point P  a , a2  lies completely inside the triangle formed by the lines x  0 , y  0 and x  y  2, then exhaustive range
of ‘a’ is
(A) a   0 , 1 (B) 𝑎 ∈ 1 , √2 (C) a   2 1 , 2 (D) a   2  1 , 1

3. A light ray emerging from the point source placed at P  2 , 3  is reflected at a point ‘Q’ on the y-axis and then passes through
the point R (5, 10). Coordinate of ‘Q’ is
(A) (0, 3) (B) (0, 2) (C) (0, 5) (D) none of these


4. Line ax  by  p  0 makes angle with x cos   y sin   p , p  R . If these lines and the line x sin   y cos   0 are
4
concurrent, then
(A) a2  b2  1 (B) a 2  b2  2 (C) 2  a2  b2   1 (D) none of these

5. A straight line passing through P (3, 1) meet the coordinate axes at A and B. It is given that distance of this straight line from
the origin ‘O’ is maximum. Area of triangle OAB is equal to
50 25 20 100
(A) [Link] (B) [Link] (C) [Link] (D) [Link]
3 3 3 3

6. Incentre of the triangle formed by the lines y  x, y  3x and y  8  3x is

 4 8  6 5  4 2 5   4 8  6 5  4 22 5 
(A)  ,  (B)  ,  (C)  ,  (D)  , 
3 3  3 3  3 3  3 3 

7. Straight lines y  mx  c1 and y  mx  c 2 , where m  R  , meet the x-axis at A1 and A2 respectively and y-axis at B1 and B2
respectively. It is given that points A1, A2, B1 and B2 are con-cyclic. Locus of intersection of lines A1B2 and A2B1 is
(A) y  x (B) y  x  0 (C) xy  1 (D) xy  1  0

8. A variable line ‘L’ is drawn through O (0, 0) to meet the lines

2 1 1
L1 : y  x  10  0 and L 2 : y  x  20  0 at the points A and B respectively. A point P is taken on ‘L’ such that  
OP OA OB
.Locus of ‘P’ is
(A) 3x  3y  40 (B) 3x  3y  40  0 (C) 3x  3y  40 (D) 3𝑦 − 3𝑥 = 40

9. In equation no.8, locus of P, if 𝑂𝑃 = 𝑂𝐴. 𝑂𝐵 is

 y  x  y  x  y  x
2 2 2
(A)  100 (B)  50 (C)  200 (D) none of these

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10. In equation no 8. Locus of P, if   , is
OP2 OA 2 OB 2
 y  x  y  x  y  x
2 2 2
(A)  80 (B)  100 (C)  64 (D) none of these

11. Variable straight lines

L1 : y  2x  c 1 and L 2 : y  2x  c 2 meet the x-axis in A1 and A2 respectively and y-axis in B1 and B2 respectively. Locus of
intersection point of A1B2 and A2B1 is
(A) y  x  0 (B) y  x (C) y  2x  0 (D) y  2x

12. Consider the triangle OAB where O   0 , 0  , B   3 , 4  . If orthocentre of the triangle is H (1, 4) then coordinate of A is
 15   17   21  19 
(A) 0 ,  (B) 0 ,  (C) 0 ,  (D)  0 , 
 4  4  4  4

13. Consider the point A   3 , 4  , B   7 , 13  . If ‘P’ be a point of the line y  x such that PA  PB is minimum, then coordinate
of ‘P’ is
 13 13   23 23   31 31   33 33 
(A)  ,  (B)  ,  (C)  ,  (D)  , 
 7 7   7 7  7 7  7 7 

14. Consider the points A   0 , 1 and B   2 , 0  . ’P’ be a point on the line 4x  3y  9  0. Coordinate of the point ‘P’ such that
PA  PB is maximum is
 12 17   84 13   6 17 
(A)  ,  (B)  ,  (C)  ,  (D) none of these
 5 5   5 5   5 5 

15. In equation no 14, coordinates of the point ‘P’ such that PA  PB is minimum is
 3 14   3 14   3 14   9 12 
(A)  ,  (B)  ,  (C)  ,  (D)  , 
 20 5   20 5   20 5   20 5 

16. In triangle ABC, equation of the right bisectors of the sides AB and AC are x  y  0 and y  x  0 respectively. If A   5 , 7  ,
then equation of side BC is
(A) 7𝑦 − 5𝑥 = 0 (B) 5x  y (C) 5y  7x (D) 5y  x

17. All chords of the curve 3x 2  y 2  2x  4y  0 that subtends a right angled at the origin pass through a fixed point whose
coordinate is
(A) 1 ,  2  (B) 1 , 2  (C)  1 , 2  (D)  1 ,  2 

18. If the straight lines y  2  0, x  a  b  0 and y  bx  0 are concurrent then

(A) a  b  1 (B) b  a  b   1 (C) a  b  2 (D) b  a  b   2

19. The medians AA1 and BB1 of the triangle ABC where A   0 , a  , B   b , 0  , C   0 , 0  are mutually perpendicular, then
(A) 2a  b (B) b  2a (C) ab (D) none of these

20. If  6 ,  4  ,  3 , 5  ,  2 , 1 are the vertices of a parallelogram, then remaining vertex CAN NOT be
(A)  0 ,  1 (B) 7 , 9 (C)  1 , 0  (D)  11 ,  8 

21. Vertices of a variable triangle are  3 , 4  ,  5 cos  ,5 sin   and (5 sin 𝜃 , −5 cos𝜃),where  R . Locus of its orthocentre is

 x  y  1   x  y  7   100  x  y  7   x  y  1  100
2 2 2 2
(A) (B)

 x  y  7   x  y  1  100
2 2
(C) (𝑥 + 𝑦 − 7) + (𝑥 − 𝑦 − 1) = 100 (D)

22. Equation ax 2  2hxy  by 2  0 represent a pair of lines. Combined equation of lines that can be obtained by reflecting these
lines about the x-axis is
(A) ax 2  2hxy  by 2  0 (B) bx 2  2hxy  ay 2  0 (C) bx 2  2hxy  ay 2  0 (D) none of these

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23. If the line y  x is one of the angle bisector of the pair of lines ax 2  2hxy  by 2  0, then
(A) ab  0 (B) h0 (C) a b  0 (D) none of these

24. In the adjacent figure triangle ABC is right angled at B. If AB = 4 and BC = 3 and side AC
slides along the coordinate exes in such a way that ‘B’ always remains in the first
quadrant, then B always lie on the straight line
(A) y  x (B) 3y  4x
(C) 4y  3x (D) x  y  0

25. Adjacent figure represents a equilateral triangle ABC of side length 2 units. Locus of vertex
‘C’ as the side AB slides along the coordinate axes is
(A) x 2  y 2  xy  1  0 (B) x 2  y 2  xy 3  1
(C) x 2  y 2  1  xy 3 (D) x 2  y 2  xy 3  1  0

St-line:
Exercise 1:
1. C 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. B
6. C 7. D 8. B 9. C 10. B
11. A 12. C 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. C 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. D
21. B 22. C 23. D 24. C 25. D
Exercise 2:
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. C
6. D 7. A 8. C 9. A 10. D
11. D 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. D
16. D 17. C 18. C 19. A 20. A
21. D 22. D 23. D 24. A 25. C
Exercise 3:
1. D 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. A
6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. A
11. C 12. D 13. C 14. B 15. D
16. A 17. A 18. D 19. D 20. A
21. D 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. C

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