Area Of Triangle in Coordinate Geometry

Geometry Level 2

If P P and Q Q are two distinct points on the line 3 x + 4 y + 15 = 0 3x + 4y + 15 = 0 such that O P = O Q = 9 OP=OQ= 9 units, then the area of triangle Δ P O Q \Delta POQ will be

450 \sqrt{450} 648 \sqrt{648} 72 \sqrt{72} 18 \sqrt{18}

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Miles Koumouris
Nov 24, 2017

To find the length L L of the perpendicular from the origin to the line y = 3 4 x 15 4 y=\frac{-3}{4}x-\frac{15}{4} , let y = 4 3 x = 3 4 x 15 4 ( x , y ) = ( 9 5 , 12 5 ) \begin{aligned} y&=\dfrac 43x=\dfrac{-3}{4}x-\dfrac{15}{4}\\ \Longrightarrow (x,y)&=\left(\dfrac{-9}{5},\dfrac{-12}{5}\right) \end{aligned} so that L = ( 9 5 ) 2 + ( 12 5 ) 2 = 3. L=\sqrt{\left(\dfrac{-9}{5}\right)^2+\left(\dfrac{-12}{5}\right)^2}=3. Then the area of the triangle is 3 × 9 2 3 2 = 18 2 = 648 . 3\times \sqrt{9^2-3^2}=18\sqrt{2}=\boxed{\sqrt{648}}.

1 pending report

Vote up reports you agree with

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...