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SUBJECT: IOQM Topic: Coordinate Geometry

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1. Questions 1 to 10 carry 2 marks each; Questions 11 to 20 carry 3 marks each;
Questions 21 and 25 carry 5 marks each.
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1. Find the area of the region enclosed by the graph of x − 60 + y = .
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2. Find the number of ordered pairs (x, y) of positive integers that satisfy x  2y  60 and y  2x  60.

3. Consider the parallelogram with vertices (10, 45), (10, 114), (28, 153), and (28, 84). A line through the
origin cuts this figure into two congruent polygons. The slope of the line is m/n where m and n are
relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

4. Three circles, each of radius 3, are drawn with centers at (14, 92), (17, 76), and (19, 84). A line
passing through (17, 76) is such that the total area of the parts of the three circles to one side of
the line is equal to the total area of the parts of the three circles to the other side of it. What is
the absolute value of the slope of this line?

5. The graph of y2 + 2xy + 40|x| = 400 partitions the plane into several regions. What is the area of
the bounded region?

6. The graphs of the equations y = k, y = 3x + 2k, y = − 3x + 2k are drawn in the coordinate plane for
k = –10, –9, –8, …, 9, 10. These 63 lines cut part of the plane into equilateral triangles of side
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length . How many such triangles are formed?
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7. Let R = (8, 6). The lines whose equations are 8y = 15x and 10y = 3x contain points P and Q,
m
respectively, such that R is the midpoint of PQ . The length of PQ equals , where m and n are
n
relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

8. A triangle has vertices P = (–8, 5), Q = (–15, –19), and R = (1, –7). The equation of the bisector of
P can be written in the form ax + 2y + c = 0. Find a + c.

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9. Let L be the line with slope that contains the point A = (24, –1), and let M be the line
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perpendicular to line L that contains the point B = (5, 6). The original coordinate axes are erased,
and line L is made the x-axis and line M the y-axis. In the new coordinate system, point A is on
the positive x-axis, and point B is on the positive y-axis. The point P with coordinates (–14, 27) in
the original system has coordinates (, ) in the new coordinate system. Find  + .

10. The points (0, 0), (a, 11), and (b, 37) are the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Find the value of ab.

11. The graph of the equation 9x + 223y = 2007 is drawn on graph paper with each square representing
one unit in each direction. How many of the 1 by 1 graph paper squares have interiors lying entirely
below the graph and entirely in the first quadrant?

12. Circles C1, C2 and C3 have their centers at (0,0), (12,0), and (24,0), and have radii 1, 2, and 4,
respectively. Line t1 is a common internal tangent to C1 and C2 and has a positive slope, and line t2
is a common internal tangent to C2 and C3 and has a negative slope. Given that lines t 1 and t2

intersect at (x, y) and that x = p − q r where p, q and r are positive integers and r is not divisible
by the square of any prime, find p + q + r.

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13. For a real number a, let a  denote the greatest integer less than or equal to a. Let R denote the
2 2
region in the coordinate plane consisting of points (x, y) such that  x  +  y  = 25 . The region R is
completely contained in a disk of radius r (a disk is the union of a circle and its interior). The
m
minimum value of r can be written as , where m and n are integers and m is not divisible by
n
the square of any prime. Find m + n.

14. The coordinates of the vertices of isosceles trapezoid ABCD are all integers, with A = (20,100) and
D = (21, 107). The trapezoid has no horizontal or vertical sides, and AB and CD are the only parallel
sides. The sum of the absolute values of all possible slopes for AB is m/n, where m and n are
relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

15. Triangle ABC lies in the cartesian plane and has an area of 70. The coordinates of B and C are (12,
19) and (23, 20) respectively, and the coordinates of A are (p, q). The line containing the median to
side BC has slope –5. Find the largest possible value of p + q.

16. Eight circles of diameter 1 are packed in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane as shown. Let
region R be the union of the eight circular regions. Line l, with slope 3, divides R into two regions
of equal area. Line l's equation can be expressed in the form ax = by + c, where a, b and c are
positive integers whose greatest common divisor is 1. Find a2 + b2 + c2.

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17. Let triangle ABC be a right triangle in the xy-plane with a right angle at C. Given that the length of
the hypotenuse AB is 60, and that the medians through A and B lie along the lines y = x + 3 and y
= 2x + 4 respectively, find the area of triangle ABC.

18. Consider the points A(0, 12), B(10, 9), C(8, 0), and D(–4, 7). There is a unique square S such that
each of the four points is on a different side of S. Let K be the area of S. Find the remainder when
10K is divided by 1000.

19. Let w1 and w2 denote the circles x2 + y2 + 10x – 24y – 87 = 0 and x2 + y2 – 10x – 24y + 153 = 0,
respectively. Let m be the smallest positive value of a for which the line y = ax contains the center
p
of a circle that is externally tangent to w2 and internally tangent to w1. Given that m 2 = , where
q

p and q are relatively prime integers, find p + q.

20. On the portion of the straight line x + 2y = 4 intercepted between the axes, a square is constructed
on the side of the line away from the origin. Then the sum of ordinate and abscissa of point of
intersection of its diagonals has co−ordinates :

21. Area of the triangle formed by the line x + y = 3 and angle bisectors of the pair of straight lines
x2 – y2 + 2y = 1 is

 a3 a −3
2  b3 b −3
2  c3 c −3
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22. If the points  , ,  ,  and  ,  are collinear for three distinct values
a − 1 a − 1  b − 1 b − 1  c − 1 c − 1 
     
a, b, c and a  1, b  1 and c  1, then find the value of abc– (ab + bc + ac) + 3 (a + b + c).

23. Two adjacent sides of a rhombus are 2x + 3y = a – 5 and 3x + 2y = 4 – 2a and its diagonals intersect
at the point (1, 2), then absolute value of a, where a is integer –

24. Triangle ABC lies in the cartesian plane and has an area of 70 sq. units. The coordinates of B and
C are (12, 19) and (23, 20) respectively and the coordinates of A are (p, q). The median to the side
BC has slope – 5, then sum of all possible values of p + q

25. The two lines pairs y2 – 4y + 3 = 0 and x2 + 4xy + 4y2 – 5x – 10y + 4 = 0 enclose a 4 sided convex
polygon, then the area of parallelogram is

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