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Class–12 Mathematics
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Chapter - 11 Three Dimensional Geometry
2 Find the direction cosines of the line passing through the points and
5. Find the distance of the point whose position vector is from the plane
8. Find the distance of the point (–1, –5, – 10) from the point of intersection of the line
and the plane .
9. A plane meets the co-ordinate axes in such that the centroid of the is
10 Find the angle between the lines whose direction cosines are given by the equations
and .
11. Find the co-ordinates of the foot of perpendicular drawn from the point
13. Find the image of the point having position vector in the plane
Choose the correct answer from the given four options in each of the Examples 14 to 19.
14.The coordinates of the foot of the perpendicular drawn from the point on
of is 5, then its is
16. If α, β, γ are the angles that a line makes with the positive direction of x,yand z
axes respectively, then the direction cosines of the line are.
(A) (C)
(B) (D)
(A) (C)
(B) (D)
18. The equations of in space are
(A) (C)
(B) (D)
19. A line makes equal angles with co-ordinate axes. Direction cosines of this line are
(A) (C)
(B)
(D)
21. If a line makes angles with the positive directions of the coordinate axes,
then the value of is __________.
22. If a line makes an angle of with each of y and z axes, then the angle which it
ANSWERS
1. 2. 3. 4. -1 5. 13 7 7.
6.
21 10
8. 13 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. (A)
15. (A) 16. (B) 17. (C) 18. (D) 19. (B) 20.
21. 2 22.
Short Answer Questions
and at to OY and
2. Find the vector equation of the line which is parallel to the vector and
of intersection.
5. Prove that the line through A (0, –1, –1) and B (4, 5, 1) intersects the line through
and .
7. Find the equation of a plane which bisects perpendicularly the line joining the points
and at right angles.
8. Find the equation of a plane which is at a distance units from origin and the
9. If the line drawn from the point meets a plane at right angle at the
11. Find the equations of the two lines through the origin which intersect the line
at angle of each.
12. Find the angle between the lines whose direction cosines are given by the equation
.
13. If a variable line in two adjacent positions has direction cosines and
show that the small angle between the two positions is
given by .
16. Find the foot of perpendicular from the point to the line
. Also, find the perpendicular distance from the given point to the line.
17. Find the distance of a point (2, 4, –1) from the line
18. Find the length and the foot of perpendicular from the point to the plane
19. Find the equations of the line passing through the point and parallel to the
planes .
20. Find the equation of the plane through the points and
23. The plane is rotated about its line of intersection with the plane
through an angle . Prove that the equation of the plane in its new position is
.
24. Find the equation of the plane through the intersection of the planes
and , whose perpendicular distance from origin is
unity.
25. Show that the points and are equidistance from the plane
vector of a point P on the line AB and a point Q on the line CD such that is
27. Show that the straight lines whose direction cosines are given by
and are at right angles.
perpendicular lines, prove that the line whose direction cosines are proportional to
makes equal angles with them.
Objective Type Questions
Choose the correct answer from the given four options in each of the Exercises from 29
to 36.
origin is
32. The sine of the angle between the straight line and the plane
is
(D)
(A) (B) (C)
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34. The area of the quadrilateral ABCD, where
and is equal to
(A) 9 sq. units (B) 18 sq. units (C) 27 sq. units (D) 81 sq. units
of α is equal to
plane is __________.
____________.
⎛ 19 ⎞
4. cos –1 ⎜ ⎟ 7. x + y + 2z = 19 8. x+y+z=9
⎝ 21 ⎠
9. 3x – 2y + 6z – 27 = 0 10. 21x + 9y – 3z – 51 = 0
x y z x y z
11. = = and = = 12. 60°
1 2 –1 –1 1 –2
14. ax + by + cz = a2 + b2 + c2 14. (1, 1)
15. 15° or 75° 16. (2, 6, –2) 3 5
17. 7 18. 6
2 2 –1
38. , , 39. ( x – 5)iˆ + ( y + 4) ĵ + ( z – 6) kˆ = λ (3iˆ + 7ˆj + 2kˆ)
3 3 3
40. ( x – 3)iˆ + ( y – 4) ˆj + ( z + 7)kˆ = λ (–2iˆ – 5ˆj + 13kˆ) 41. x + y – z = 2
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