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JEE • MATHEMATICS • PARABOLA
Parabola practice · Mixed difficulty
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The chords of contact of the pairs of tangents drawn from each point on the line to the parabola pass through the point
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Correct option: D
Option D ((-2,1)) is correct because the chords of contact pass through a fixed point which can be found by expressing the equation of the chord of contact in the form .
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The point of the parabola , for which the ordinate is three times the abscissa is
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Correct option: D
Option D ((2,6)) is correct because it satisfies both the equation of the parabola and the condition that the ordinate is three times the abscissa.
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The equation represents a
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Correct option: C
a pair of straight lines
Option C (a pair of straight lines) is correct because the discriminant and , indicating a pair of parallel straight lines.
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If PSQ is the focal chord of the parabola such that , then the length of is
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Correct option: C
3
Option D () is correct because the tangents at the ends of a focal chord intersect on the directrix, which is x = -a.
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One of the points on the parabola with focal distance 12, is
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Correct option: B
Option B ( is correct because when the focal distance is 12, the point on the parabola is .
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Let and be two distinct points on the parabola . If The axis of the parabola touches a circle of radius having as its diameter, then the slope of the line joining and can be
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because the slope of the line joining A and B can be expressed in terms of the radius r of the circle touching the axis of the parabola.
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Two parabolas and intersect at two different points, where is and is . The intersection at which the value is positive is designated point , and at this intersection the tangent line at to the curve intersects curve at point , other than . If -value of point is 1 , then a is equal to
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Correct option: C
3
Option C (3) is correct because solving the intersection of the two parabolas and the tangent line equation leads to a cubic equation with a root at a=3.
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Application
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The coordinates of the focus of the parabola described parametrically by are
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Correct option: A
Option A is correct because after converting the parametric equations to Cartesian form and comparing with the standard parabola equation, the focus is found to be at (7,4).
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If is a tangent to the parabola, then its distance from the parallel normal is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it is the distance between the given tangent and its parallel normal to the parabola.
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, is
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Correct option: B
The correct answer is B () because it represents the square of the shortest distance between the circle and the parabola, found using the common normal and subtracting the radius.
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If and are two tangents to the parabola , then
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the tangents intersect on the directrix, implying they are perpendicular.
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Three distinct normals to the parabola are drawn through a point , then
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because for three distinct normals to be drawn to the parabola, the x-coordinate of the point must be greater than half the latus rectum.
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If one end of a focal chord of the parabola , is at (1, 4) then the length of this focal chord is
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Correct option: B
25
Option B (25) is correct because it is the length of the focal chord calculated using the formula after finding the slope and focus.
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The angle between the tangents drawn from the origin to the parabola is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the tangents drawn from the origin to the parabola intersect at right angles, as the origin lies on the directrix.
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Analyzing
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The set of points on the axis of the parabola , from which three distinct normals can be drawn to the parabola , is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because three distinct normals can be drawn from points on the axis of the parabola when x is greater than 2a.
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The condition that the parabolas and have a common normal other than -axis is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the condition for a common normal (other than the X-axis) is derived by equating the normal equations of the two parabolas and solving for the relationship between a, c, and d.
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