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IIT – JEE: 2019 CRASH COURSE (MAIN) DATE: 05/12/18

TIME: 45 Min. TOPIC: VECTORS & 3-D MARKS: 90

SECTION-I (SINGLE ANSWER CORRECT TYPE)

This section contains 30 Multiple choice questions. Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and
(D) for its answer, out which ONLY ONE is correct. (+3, –1)

x  1 y  1 z  10
1. The reflection of the point A 1, 0, 0  in the line   is
2 3 8
(1)  3,  4,  2  (2)  5,  8,  4  (3) 1,  1,  10  (4)  2,  3, 8 

2. An equation of the plane passing through the line of intersection of the planes x  y  z  6 and
2 x  3 y  4 z  5  0 and passing through (1, 1, 1) is
(1) 2 x  3 y  4 z  9 (2) x  y  z  3 (3) x  2 y  3 z  6 (4) 20 x  23 y  26 z  69

3. Equation of the plane through three points A, B, C with position vectors 6i  3j  2k , 3i  2 j  4k ,
5i  7 j  3k is
(1) r.  i  j  7k   23  0 (2) r.  i  j  7k   23
(3) r.  i  j  7k   23  0 (4) r.  i  j  7k   23

4. The lines whose vector equations are r  a  tb, r  c  td are coplanar if
(1) a  b   c  d   0 (2) a  c  b  d   0 (3) b  c   a  d   0 (4) b  d   a  c   0

5. The shortest distance between the skew lines l1 : r  a1  b1 and l2 : r  a 2  b 2 is

 a2  a1   b1  b 2  a1  a2   a2  b 2
(1) (2)
b1  b 2 b1  b 2
 a2  b 2   a1  b1  a1  b1   b1  a2
(3) (4)
b1  b 2 b1  b 2

6. The length of the shortest distance between the lines r  3i  5 j  7k    i  2 j  k  and

r  i  j  k    7i  6 j  k  is
(1) 83 (2) 6 (3) 3 (4) 2 29

7. The angle between the lines whose direction cosines are given by the equations
l 2  m 2  n2  0, l  m  n  0 is
   
(1) (2) (3) (4)
6 4 3 2

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8. The volume of the tetrahedron included between the plane. 3 x  4 y  5 z  60  0 and the coordinate
planes is
(1) 60 (2) 600 (3) 720 (4) None of these

9. A line segment has length 63 and direction ratios are 3, –2, 6. If the line makes an obtuse angle with
x-axis, the components of the line vector are
(1) 27, – 18, 54 (2) – 27, 18, – 54 (3) – 27, 18, – 54 (4) 27, – 18, – 54

10. Equation of a plane bisecting the angle between the planes 2 x  y  2 z  3  0 and
3 x  2 y  6 z  8  0 is
(1) 5 x  y  4 z  45  0 (2) 5 x  y  4 z  3  0
(3) 23x  13 y  32 z  45  0 (4) 23x  13 y  32 z  5  0

11. An equation of the line passing through 3i  5 j  7k and perpendicular to the plane 3 x  4 y  5 z  8
is
x 3 y  5 z 7 x 3 y  4 z 5
(1)   (2)  
3 4 5 3 5 7
(3) r  3i  5 j  7k    3i  4 j  5k  (4) r  3i  4 j  5k    3i  5 j  7k 

12. If the perpendicular distance of a point P other than the origin from the plane x  y  z  p is equal
to the distance of the plane from the origin, then the coordinate of P are
(1)  p, 2 p, 0  (2)  0, 2 p  p  (3)  2 p, p,  p  (4)  2 p,  p, 2 p 

13. If p1 , p2 , p3 denote the distance of the plane 2 x  3 y  4 z  2  0 from the planes

2 x  3 y  4 z  6  0 , 4 x  6 y  8 z  3  0 and 2 x  3 y  4 z  6  0 respectively, then
(1) p1  8 p2  p3  0 (2) p32  16 p22
(3) 8 p22  p12 (4) p1  2 p2  3 p3  29

14. Equation of the plane containing the lines.

r  i  2 j  k    i  2 j  k  and r  i  2 j  k    i  j  3k  is
(1) r   7i  4 j  k   0 (2) 7  x  1  4  y  1   z  3  0
(3) r   i  2 j  k   0 (4) r   i  j  3k   0

15. The foot of the perpendicular from the origin to the join of A  9, 4, 5  and B 11, 0,  1 divides AB
in the ratio
(A) 2 : 3 (B) 3 : 2 (C) 1 : 1 (D) None of these

16. The vector c, directed along the internal bisector of the angle between the vectors a  7i  4 j  4k
and b  2i  j  2k , with c  5 6 is
5 5
(1)     i  7 j  2k  (2)    5i  5 j  2k 
3 3
5 5
(3)     i  7 j  2k  (4)    5i  5 j  2k 
3 3

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17. Let a, b and c be three non zero vectors, no two of which are collinear. If the vectors a + 2b is
collinear c and b + 3c is collinear with a, then a + 2b + 6c is equal to, (  being some non-zero
scalar)
(1)  a (2)  b (3)  c (4) 0

18. The value of k for which the points A 1, 0, 3 , B  1, 3, 4  , C 1, 2, 1 and D  k , 2, 5 are coplanar,
are
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 0 (4) –1

19. Let a, b, c be distinct non-negative numbers. If the vectors ai  aj  ck , i  k and ci  cj  bk lie in a

plane, then c is
(1) the arithmetic mean of a and b (2) the geometric mean of a and b
(3) the harmonic mean of a and b (4) equal to zero

20. Let p, q, r be three mutually perpendicular vectors of the same magnitude. If a vector x satisfies the
equation p    x  q   p   q    x  r   q   r    x  p   r   0 then x is given by
1 1 1 1
(1)    p  q  2r  (2)    p  q  r  (3)    p  q  r  (4)    2p  q  r 
2 2 3 3

2 2 2 2 2 2
21. If a, b, c and d are unit vectors, then a  b  b  c  c  d  d  a  c  a  b  d does not
exceed
(1) 4 (2) 12 (3) 8 (4) 16

22. Let a  i  k , b  xi  j  1  x  k and c  yi  xj  1  x  y  k . Then  a b c depends on

(1) only x (2) only y (3) neither x nor y (4) both x and y

23. Let a  2i  j  2k and b  i  j . If c is a vector such that and the angle between a  b and c is 30o,
then  a  b   c 
2 3
(1) (2) (3) 2 (4) 3
3 2

8
24. A tangent is drawn to the curve y  in xy-plane at the point A  x0 , y0  , where x0  2 , and the
x2
tangent cuts the x-axis at a point B. Then AB  OB is equal to
(1) 2 (2) 1 (3) 0 (4) 3

25. Let P, Q, R be points with position vectors r1  3i  2 j  k , r2  i  3 j  4k and r3  2i  j  2k

relative to an origin 0. The distance of P from the plane OQR is (magnitude)
11
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 1 (4)
3

26. For unit vectors b and c and any non zero vector a, the value of  a  b    a  c    b  c    b  c 
is
2 2 2
(1) a (2) 2 a (3) 3 a (4) None of these

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27. Three non-coplanar vector a, b and c are drawn from a common initial point. The angle between the
plane passing through the terminal points of these vectors and the vector a  b  b  c  c  a is
  
(1) (2) (3) (4) None of these
4 2 3

28. A unit tangent vector at t = 2 on the curve x  t 2  2, y  4t 3  5, z  2t 2  6t is

1 1 1
(1) i  j  k  (2)  2i  2 j  k  (3)  2i  j  k  (4) None of these
3 3 6

1 1
29. A particle moves along a curve so that its coordinates at time t are x  t , y  t 2 , z  t 3 . The
2 3
acceleration at t  1 is
(1) j  2k (2) j  k (3) 2 j  k (4) None of these

30. Consider the parallelopipped with sides along a  3i  2 j  k , b  i  j  2k and c  i  3 j  3k then

the angle between a and the plane containing the face determined by b and c is
1 9 9 2
(1) sin 1   (2) cos1   (3) sin 1   (4) sin 1  
3  14   14  3

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