LOCUS ANUJ SIR
1. A stick of length 10 units rests against the floor & a wall of a room . If the stick begins to slide on
the floor then the locus of its middle point is :
(A) x 2 + y2 = 2.5 (B*) x 2 + y2 = 25 (C) x 2 + y2 = 100 (D) none
2. Find the equation to the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from the point
(a, 0) is always four times its distance from the axis of y.
[ Ans.: 15 x2 y2 + 2 a x = a2 ]
3. Find the equation to the locus of a point which moves so that its distance from the point
(3, 0) is three times its distance from (0, 2).
[ Ans.: 8 x2 + 8 y2 + 6 x 36 y + 27 = 0 ]
4. A straight line moves such that the sum of its intercepts (X AND Y INTERCEPTS)on the axes is 10 . The
locus of the middle point of the portion of the line intercepted between the axes is ______ .
[ Ans. : x + y = 5 ]
5. If the vertices A & B of a triangle ABC are given by (2, 5) & (4, 11) respectively and C moves along the
line L 9x + 7y + 4 = 0, then then find locus of the centroid of the triangle ABC
[ Assume C (a, b) 9 a + 7 b + 4 = 0; 3 h = a + 6 & 3 k = b 6
Ans.: 27 x + 21 y 8 = 0 ]
6. Find the locus of the mean(mid) point of the segment of the line cos a + y sin a = p between the
coordinate axes where p is a constant and a is a parameter.
1 1 4
Ans. + =
x 2 y2 p2
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B & C are fixed points having co-ordinates (3, 0) and ( 3, 0) respectively . If the vertical angle
BAC is 90º, then the locus of the centroid of the ABC has the equation :
(A*) x 2 + y2 = 1
By
(B) x 2 + y2 = 2 (C) 9 (x 2 + y2) = 1 (D) 9 (x 2 + y2) = 4
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Through a given point P (a, b) a straight line is drawn to meet the axes at Q & R . If the parallelogram OQSR
is completed then the equation of the locus of S is (given 'O' is the origin) :
a b a b a b a b
(A*) + =1 (B) + =1 (C) + =2 (D) + =2
x y y x x y y x
9. A variable straight line passes through the points of intersection of the lines, x + 2y = 1 and 2x y
= 1 and meets the coordinate axes in A & B . The locus of the middle point of AB is
(A*) x + 3y 10xy = 0 (B) x 3y + 10xy = 0
(C) x + 3y + 10xy = 0 (D) none
10. Through a given point P (a, b) a straight line is drawn to meet the axes at Q & R. If the parallelogram
OQSR is completed then the equation of the locus of S is (given 'O' is the origin):
a b a b a b a b
(A*) + =1 (B) + =1 (C) + =2 (D) + =2
x y y x x y y x
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