NCERT Class 11-Math's: Exemplar Chapter –10 Straight Lines Part 4
Glide to success with Doorsteptutor material for CBSE/Class-10 Hindi: fully solved questions with step-by-step explanation- practice your way to success.
Question 10:
A ray of light coming from the point is reflected at a point A on the x-axis and then passes through the point . Find the coordinates of the point A.
Answer:
Let the incident ray strike x-axis at the point A whose coordinates be . From the figure, the slope of the reflected ray is given by

Slope of the Reflected Ray
Again, the slope of the incident ray is given by
Or
Solving (1) and (2), we get
Therefore, the required coordinates of the point A are
Question 11:
If one diagonal of a square is along the line and one of its vertex is at , then find the equation of sides of the square passing through this vertex.
Answer:
Let ABCD be the given square and the coordinates of the vertex D be . We are required to find the equations of its sides DC and AD.

Square and the Coordinates
Given that BD is along the line , so its slope is (Why?) The angles made by BD with sides AD and DC is (Why?). Let the slope of DC be . Then
or
or , which gives
Therefore, the equation of the side DC is given by
Similarly, the equation of another side AD is given by
Objective Type Questions
Each of the Examples 12 to 20 has four possible options out of which only one option is correct. Choose the correct option (M.C.Q.).
Question 12:
The inclination of the line with the positive direction of x-axis is
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Answer:
(A) is the correct answer. The equation of the line can be rewritten as and hence .
Question 13:
The two lines and are perpendicular if
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Answer:
(A) Is correct answer. Slope of the line is and the slope of the lineis The lines are perpendicular if