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Given:
• PQ is a straight line.
• Coordinate of point P is (a, b).
• a > 0.
To find:• In which quadrant Q lies.
Let us assume the coordinate of point Q is (x, y)
To find the quadrant of point Q, we need to find the exact value of the coordinate of point Q.
Analysing statement 1: The origin bisects PQ in 1: 1 ratio.
Hence, 0 = \(\frac{a + x}{2}\)and 0= \(\frac{b + y}{2}\)
• Therefore. x= -a and y= -b
• However, we still don’t know the exact value of x and y.
Hence, statement 1 is not sufficient to answer the question.
Analysing statement 2:The slope m of the line PQ is non-negative.
Slope m of a line is \(\frac{y2 – y1}{x2-x1}\).
Hence, m= \(\frac{y-b}{x-a}\)
However, we still don’t have any information about the values of x and y.
Hence, statement 2 is not sufficient to answer the question.
Combining both the statements together:From statement 1:
• x= -a and y= -b
From statement 2:
• m= \(\frac{y-b}{x-a}\)
We cannot find the value of x and y even after combining both the statements together.
Hence, option E is the correct answer.
Correct answer: option E. Can you let me know where I have gone wrong in my reasoning.
I thought C is the answer and my reasoning is given below.
Given a straight line PQ, with co-ordinates of P as (a,b) where a > 0
=> P is either on the 1st quadrant or on x axis or on the 4rth quadrant. Any pattern of line with positive, negative, infinite or zero slope can be drawn using points in these quadrants.
STATEMENT 1 : Origin bisects the line in the ratio 1 : 1
From the set of lines that could possibly be the answer we can eliminate all lines that doesnt pass through the origin.
As line passes through origin and a >0, line y axis and all lines with slope infinity (|| to y axis) can be eliminated.
If point P is in quadrant 1 it has to pass though quadrant 3 to satisfy this condition. This implies that the line will have a positive slope
If b is 0, then PQ is part of the x axis itself, and the point Q will be (-a,0) => Slope is 0 here
If the point P lies in 4rth quadrant, then Q must lie in the 2nd quadrant so that the origin bisects PQ. Here PQ will have negative slope.
HENCE STATEMENT 1 is not enough to answer the question
STATEMENT 2 : slope is non negative.
0 is neither positive nor negative. So I believe this statement essentially means slope is positive. We cannot narrow down the options here. The point Q could be in first quadrant itself
However, combining the 2 we can conclude that Q should pass through origin and should be in third quadrant. Hence both together can answer the question