Let the line meet the circle at the points A and B. If the line perpendicular to and passing through the mid point of the chord intersects the circle at C and D, then the area of the quadrilateral is equal to:
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Let the line meet the circle at the points A and B. If the line perpendicular to and passing through the mid point of the chord intersects the circle at C and D, then the area of the quadrilateral is equal to:
Correct answer:A
Standard Method
Given: The circle is and the chord lies on the line .
Find: The area of quadrilateral .
From the solution, the midpoint of chord is
and the slope of is . Therefore, the line perpendicular to through is
Intersecting with the circle:
so
Hence,
Intersecting with the circle gives
The solution explicitly concludes that the area of quadrilateral is
and repeats this in both approaches. However, the solution's also explicitly marks Option A as the correct option. Since the worked value and the listed correct option disagree, this is a source discrepancy.
Using the page's stated correct option mapping, the answer is A, which corresponds to .
Detailed Working from Extracted
Given: and .
Find: The area of quadrilateral .
For points and , substitute
into the circle:
Therefore,
So,
The midpoint of is
The slope of is
Hence, the slope of the perpendicular is , so its equation through is
Now intersect with the circle:
Thus,
the solution then states the area of the quadrilateral as
but the solution says The Correct Option is A. Since option A is , the source contains an internal inconsistency. Following the solution's marked correct option, the final answer is A.
Assuming the perpendicular bisector of chord is not needed. This is wrong because the question directly uses the line perpendicular to through its midpoint to define points and . First find the midpoint of , then write the perpendicular line.
Using the wrong slope for the perpendicular line. If the slope of is , the perpendicular slope is , not again. Use the negative reciprocal carefully.
Confusing the vertex order of the quadrilateral while applying an area formula. This can produce an incorrect signed area or the wrong polygon. Keep the vertices in the stated cyclic order when using the shoelace formula.
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