Practice Worksheet – 2

XII – Topic : Three

Mathematics dimensional
geometry
Includes questions from NCERT, NCERT EXEMPLAR and Previous Year
Board Questions
NILESH GULATI 9999703803, 9999876540
Problems based on Shortest Distance between two lines
Skew Lines : Two straight lines in space which are neither parallel nor intersecting are called
skew lines.

Shortest Distance between lines r = a1 + b1 and r = a2 + b2 is given by

d=
(b  b ) .( a
1 2 2 − a1 )
b1  b2

Shortest Distance between two parallel lines r = a1 + b and r = a2 + b is given by

b  ( a2 − a1 )
d=
b

1) Find the shortest distance between the lines ( ) ( )

r = iˆ + 2 ˆj + kˆ +  iˆ − ˆj + kˆ and

( ) (
r = 2iˆ − ˆj − kˆ +  2iˆ + ˆj + 2 kˆ )
x+1 y+1 z+1 x −3 y −5 z−7
2) Find the shortest distance between the lines = = and = =
7 −6 1 1 −2 1

(
3) Find the shortest distance between the lines whose vector equations are r = iˆ + 2 ˆj + 3kˆ +  iˆ − 3 ˆj + 2 kˆ ) ( )
( ) (
and r = 4iˆ + 5 ˆj + 6 kˆ +  2iˆ + 3 ˆj + kˆ )
4) Find the shortest distance between the lines whose vector equations are r = ( 1 − t ) iˆ + ( t − 2 ) ˆj + ( 3 − 2t ) kˆ

and r = ( s + 1) iˆ + ( 2s − 1) ˆj − ( 2s + 1) kˆ
5) Find the shortest distance between the lines l1 and l2 whose vector equations are

( ) ( ) ( ) (
r = iˆ + ˆj + kˆ +  2iˆ − ˆj + kˆ and r = 2iˆ + ˆj − kˆ +  3iˆ − 5 ˆj + 2 kˆ )
6) Find the distance between the lines l1 and l2 given by r = iˆ + 2 ˆj − 4 kˆ +  2iˆ + 3 ˆj + 6 kˆ and ( ) ( )
( ) (
r = 3iˆ + 3 ˆj − 5kˆ +  2iˆ + 3 ˆj + 6 kˆ )
7) Find the shortest distance between the ( ) ( )
lines r = 6iˆ + 2 ˆj + 2 kˆ +  iˆ − 2 ˆj + 2 kˆ and

( ) (
r = −4iˆ − kˆ +  3iˆ − 2 ˆj − 2 kˆ )
8) Find the shortest distance between the lines given by r = ( 8 + 3 ) iˆ − ( 9 + 16 ) ˆj + ( 10 + 7 ) kˆ and

( ) (
r = 15iˆ + 29 ˆj + 5kˆ +  3iˆ + 8 ˆj − 5kˆ . )
9) Find the shortest distance between the lines r = (  − 1) iˆ + (  + 1) ˆj − ( 1 +  ) kˆ and

r = ( 1 −  ) iˆ + ( 2  − 1) ˆj + (  + 2 ) kˆ

Problems based on Intersection of Lines

x−1 y −2 z−3 x−4 y −1
10) Show that the lines = = and = = z intersect. Also, find their point of
2 3 4 5 2
intersection.
11) Prove that the lines through A (0, - 1, - 1) and B (4, 5, 1) intersects the line through C (3, 9, 4) and D (- 4,
4, 4).
12) Determine whether the following pair of lines intersect or not :
x −5 y −7 z+ 3 x−8 y −4 z−5
= = and = =
4 4 −5 7 1 3
13) Determine whether the following pair of lines intersect or not :

( ) ( ) ( ) (
r = iˆ − ˆj +  2iˆ + kˆ and r = 2iˆ − ˆj +  iˆ + ˆj − kˆ )
Miscellaneous Problems on Line in Space
x+3 y−4 z+8
14) Find the distance of the point (- 2, 4, - 5) from the line = =
3 5 6
15) Find the coordinates of the foot of perpendicular drawn from the point A (1, 8, 4) to the line joining the
points B (0, - 1, 3) and C (2, - 3, - 1).
x y −1 z−2
16) Find the image of the point (1, 6, 3) in the line = = . Also, write the equation of the line
1 2 3
joining the given point and its image and find the length of the segment joining the given point and its
image.
 4−x y 1−z
17) Find the foot of perpendicular from the point (2, 3, - 8) to the line = = . Also, find the
2 6 3
perpendicular distance from the given point to the line.

x+5 y +3 z−6
18) Find the distance of a point (2, 4, - 1) from the line = = .
1 4 −9

Answers

3 2
1)
2

2) 2 29
3
3)
19
8
4)
29
10
5)
59

293
6)
7
7) 9
8) 14

5 2
9)
2
10) (- 1, - 1, - 1)
12) Yes
13) No

37
14)
10

 −5 2 19 
15)  , , 
 3 3 3 
x−1 y −6 z−3
16) (1, 0, 7); = = ; 2 13
0 −6 4

17) (2, 6, - 2); 3 5

18) 7