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JEE Main 2023Circle Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2023 (Online) 6th April Morning Shift

Question

A circle passing through the point in the first quadrant touches the two coordinate axes at the points and . The point is above the line . The point on the line segment is the foot of perpendicular from on . If is equal to 11 units, then the value of is ___________.

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Show full solutionCorrect answer: 121
Correct answer
121

Step-by-step explanation

Let equation of circle is

Since, (i) passes through

JEE Main 2023 (Online) 6th April Morning Shift Mathematics - Circle Question 32 English Explanation





Equation of

.........(ii)

Let be the foot of the perpendicular from to line (iii)



Now,





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