JEE Main Mathematics — Coordinate Geometry previous year questions with solutions.
If the angle of intersection at a point where the two circles with radii $5 cm$ and $12 cm$ intersect is $90^{\circ}$, then the length (in cm) of their common chord is:
A point on the straight line, $3x+5y=15$ which is equidistant from the coordinate axes will lie only in:
Two vertices of a triangle are $(0,2)$ and $(4,3).$ If its orthocenter is at the origin, then its third vertex lies in which quadrant?
If the vertices of a hyperbola be at $(-2, 0)$ and $(2, 0)$ and one of its foci be at $(-3, 0)$, then which one of the following points does not lie on this hyperbola ?
Let $S$ and ${S}^{'}$ be the foci of an ellipse and $B$ be any one of the extremities of its minor axis. If $\Delta {S}^{'}BS$ is a right angled triangle with right angle at $B$ and area $(\Delta {S}^{'}BS)=8\mathrm{sq}.\mathrm{units}$, then the length of a latus rectum of the ellipse is :
Two circles with equal radii are intersecting at the points (0,1) and (0,-1) . The tangent at the point (0,1) to one of the circles passes through the centre of the other circle. Then the distance between the centres of these circles is:
If a variable line $3x+4y-\lambda =0$ is such that the two circles ${x}^{2}+{y}^{2}-2x-2y+1=0$ and ${x}^{2}+{y}^{2}-18x-2y+78=0$ are on its opposite sides, then the set of all values of $\lambda$ is the interval :
A straight line $L$ at a distance of $4$ units from the origin makes positive intercepts on the coordinate axes and the perpendicular from the origin to this line makes an angle of $60^{\circ}$ with the line $x+y=0.$ Then an equation of the line $L$ is: Note: In actual JEE Main paper, two options were correct for this question. Hence, we have changed one option.
Let $A(4,-4)$ and $B(9,6)$ be points on the parabola, ${y}^{2}=4x.$ Let $C$ be chosen on the arc $AOB$ of the parabola, where $O$ is the origin, such that the area of $\Delta ACB$ is maximum. Then, the area (in sq. units) of $\Delta ACB$ , is:
The locus of the point of intersection of the lines $\sqrt{2}x-y+4\sqrt{2}k=0$ and $\sqrt{2}kx+ky-4\sqrt{2}=0$ ($k$ is any non-zero real parameter) is
A circle passes through the points $(2,3)$ and $(4$, 5). If its centre lies on the line, $y-4 x+3=0$, then its radius is equal to
Two sets $A$ and $B$ are as under: $A={(a, b)\in R\times R :|a-5|<1 \text{and} |b-5|<1};$ $B={(a, b)\in R\times R:4{(a-6)}^{2}+9{(b-5)}^{2}\leq 36}.$ Then :
In a triangle $A B C$, coordianates of $A$ are $(1,2)$ and the equations of the medians through $B$ and $C$ are $x+y=5$ and $x=4$ respectively. Then area of $\triangle A B C$ (in sq. units) is
Let $P$ be a point on the parabola ${x}^{2}=4y$. If the distance of $P$ from the center of the circle ${x}^{2}+{y}^{2}+6x+8=0$ is minimum, then the equation of the tangent to the parabola at $P$ is
If the tangent at $(1,7)$ to the curve ${x}^{2}=y-6$ touch the circle ${x}^{2}+{y}^{2}+16x+12y+c=0$ then the value of $c$ is:
If the length of the latus rectum of an ellipse is $4$ units and the distance between a focus and its nearest vertex on the major axis is $\frac{3}{2}$ units, then its eccentricity is
A straight line through a fixed point $(2,3)$ intersects the coordinate axes at distinct points $P$ and $Q$. If $O$ is the origin and the rectangle $OPRQ$ is completed, then the locus of $R$ is:
The tangent to the circle $C_1: x^2+y^2-2 x-1=0$ at the point $(2,1)$ cuts off a chord of length 4 from a circle $C_2$ whose centre is $(3,-2)$. The radius of $C_2$ is
The foot of the perpendicular drawn from the origin, on the line, $3 x+y=\lambda(\lambda \neq 0)$ is $P$. If the line meets $x$-axis at $A$ and $y$-axis at $B$, then the ratio $B P$ $: P A$ is
Two parabolas with a common vertex and with axes along the $x$-axis and $y$-axis respectively, intersect each other in the first quadrant. If the length of the latus rectum of each parabola is $3$, then the equation of the common tangent to the two parabolas is :
If a circle $C$, whose radius is $3$, touches externally the circle ${x}^{2}+{y}^{2}+2x-4y-4=0$ at the point $(2,2)$, then the length of the intercept cut by this circle $C$ on the $x$-axis is equal to
Tangent and normal are drawn at $P(16,16)$ on the parabola ${y}^{2}=16x$, which intersect the axis of the parabola at $A&B$, respectively. If $C$ is the center of the circle through the points $P,A&B$ and $\angle CPB=\theta ,$ then a value of $\mathrm{tan}\theta$ is:
If $\beta$ is one of the angles between the normals to the ellipse ${x}^{2}+3{y}^{2}=9$ at the points $(3\mathrm{cos}\theta ,\sqrt{3}\mathrm{sin}\theta )$ and $(-3\mathrm{sin}\theta ,\sqrt{3}\mathrm{cos}\theta );\theta \in (0,\frac{\pi }{2})$; then $\frac{2\mathrm{cot}\beta }{\mathrm{sin}2\theta }$ is equal to :
The sides of a rhombus $A B C D$ are parallel to the lines, $x-y+2=0$ and $7 x-y+3=0$. If the diagonals of the rhombus intersect at $P(1,2)$ and the vertex $A$ (different from the origin) is on the $y$ axis, then the ordinate of $A$ is