JEE Main 2025 — Parabola Question with Solution
JEE Main 2025 (22 Jan Shift 2)
Question
Let be a point on the parabola and PQ be a focal chord of the parabola. If M and are the foot of perpendiculars drawn from and respectively on the directrix of the parabola, then the area of the quadrilateral PQMN is equal to :
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D
Step-by-step explanation

$\begin{aligned} & (4,4 \sqrt{3}) \text { lies on } y^2=4 \mathrm{ax} \\ & \Rightarrow 48=4 \mathrm{a} \cdot 4 \\ & \quad 4 \mathrm{a}=12 \end{aligned}$ is equation of parabola Now, parameter of is Parameters of is Area of trapezium PQNM $\begin{aligned} & =\frac{1}{2} \mathrm{MN} \cdot(\mathrm{PM}+\mathrm{QN}) \\ & =\frac{1}{2} \mathrm{MN} \cdot(\mathrm{PS}+\mathrm{QS}) \\ & =\frac{1}{2} \mathrm{MN} \cdot \mathrm{PQ} \\ & =\frac{1}{2} 7 \sqrt{3} \cdot \frac{49}{4}=(343) \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8} \end{aligned}$
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