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Question 1:
A point is on the x-axis. What are its y-coordinates and z-coordinates?
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Question 3:
Name the octants in which the following points lie:
(1, 2, 3), (4, –2, 3), (4, –2, –5), (4, 2, –5), (–4, 2, –5), (–4, 2, 5),
(–3, –1, 6), (2, –4, –7)
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Question 4:
Fill in the blanks:
(i) The x-axis and y-axis taken together determine a plane known as __________
(ii) The coordinates of points in the XY-plane are of the form________
(iii) Coordinate planes divide the space into__________ octants.
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Question 1:
Find the distance between the following pairs of points:
(i) (2, 3, 5) and (4, 3, 1) (ii) (–3, 7, 2) and (2, 4, –1)
(iii) (–1, 3, –4) and (1, –3, 4) (iv) (2, –1, 3) and (–2, 1, 3)
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Question 3:
Verify the following:
(i) (0, 7, –10), (1, 6, –6) and (4, 9, –6) are the vertices of an isosceles triangle.
(ii) (0, 7, 10), (–1, 6, 6) and (–4, 9, 6) are the vertices of a right angled triangle.
(iii) (–1, 2, 1), (1, –2, 5), (4, –7, 8) and (2, –3, 4) are the vertices of a parallelogram.
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Question 1:
Find the coordinates of the point which divides the line segment joining the points (–2, 3, 5) and (1, –4, 6) in the ratio (i) 2:3 internally, (ii) 2:3 externally.
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Question 5:
A point R with x-coordinate 4 lies on the line segment joining the pointsP (2, –3, 4) and Q (8, 0, 10). Find the coordinates of the point R.
[Hint suppose R divides PQ in the ratio k: 1. The coordinates of the point R are given by
