JEE Main 2014 — Hyperbola Question with Solution
JEE Main 2014 (19 Apr Online)
Question
The tangent at an extremity (in the first quadrant) of the latus rectum of the hyperbola , meets the -axis and -axis at and , respectively. Then , where is the origin, equals
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Step-by-step explanation
Hyperbola,
Extremity of in first quadrant
Equation of tangent to the hyperbola at is
To find the point on --axis, put
To find the point on -axis, put
Now,
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