Mathematics – Assignment (Area)

1. Find the area bounded by y = x3 and y = x.

2. Find the area included between the line y = x and the parabola x2 = 4y.
3. find the area bounded by the parabola y2 = 4x and the straight line x + y = 3.
4. Determine the area bounded by the curve y = x(x – 1)2, the y–axis and the line y = 2.
5. In what ratio does the x–axis divide the area of the region bounded by the parabola
y = 4x – x2 and y = x2 – x.
6. Let f(x) = minimum (x  1, 1  x )  x  1 . Find the area bounded by y = f(x) and the x–axis.
7. Let f(x) = max. {x2, (1 – x)2, 2x(1 – x)}, where 0  x  1. Determine the area of the region
bounded by the curve y = f(x), x–axis, x = 0 and x = 1.
8. Compute the area of the region bounded by the curve y = ex ln x and y = (ln x)/ex.
9. Calculate the area bounded by the curve y = x (x – 3)2 the x–axis and the ordinates at the
maxima and minima of the curve.
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10. Find the area bounded by the curve y  and its chord which joins the points of
1 x2
inflexion of the curve.
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11. Find the area bounded by the curves y = x2 and y = .
1 x2
12. Find the area bounded by the curves y = ln (x + e), x = ln (1/y) and x–axis
13. Find the area bounded by the curve (y – 2)2 = x – 1, the tangent to it at the point with ordinate
3 and x–axis.
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14. Find the area bounded by y = 2 – |2 – x| and y =
|x|
2 2 2
15. Find the area bounded by x + y = 25, 4y = |x – 4| and x = 0 in first quadrant.
16. Find the area common to the ellipses a2x2 + b2 y2 = 1 and b2x2 + a2 y2 = 1 (0  a  b).

17. Let the sequence a1, a2, a3, … be in G.P. If the area bounded by the parabolas y2 = 4anx and
y2 + 4an (x – an) = 0 be n, nN. Prove that the sequence 1, 2, 3, … is also in G.P.
18. The area bounded by the curve y = f(x), f(x) > 0, x –axis and the ordinates x = 1 and
x = b (b > 1)is (b – 1) sin (3b + 4). Find f(x).
19. The area bounded by the continuous curve y = f(x) and the lines y = 2, x = 1 and x = a, a  1
2
is equal to [(2a) 3/2  3a  3  2 2] . Find f(x) if f(x)  2  x  [1, a].
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20. Find the continuous function f(x) > 0, such that the area bonded by the x–axis, the curve
y = f(x) and the ordinates x = 1, x = a is equal to 1  a 2  2  a  1 .
21. Let C1 and C2 be the graph of the functions y =
x2 and y = 2x, 0  x  1 respectively. Let C3 be
the graph of a function y = f(x), 0  x  1, f(0)
= 0. For a point P and C1, let the lines through
P, parallel to the axes, meet C2 and C3 at Q and
R respectively. If for every position of P(on
C1), the areas of the shaded regions OPQ and
ORP are equal, determine the function f(x).

22. A triangle ABC has co-ordinates A  (0, 0), B  (1, 3) and C  (4, 0). Consider all points P on
or within the triangle which satisfy the relation d(P, A)  min {d(P, B); d(P, C)} where d(M,
N) denotes distance of point M from point N. If R is the region containing all possible
positions of point P, find area of region R.
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23. Let O(0, 0), A(2, 0) and B(1, ) be the vertices of a triangle. Let R be the region consisting
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of all those points P inside OAB which satisfy d(P, OA)  min {d(P, OB), d(P, AB)}, where
 d denotes the distance from the point to the corresponding line. Sketch the region R and find
its area.
24. Consider a square with vertices at (1, 1), (1, –1), (–1, –1) and (–1, 1). Let S be the region
consisting of all points inside the square which are nearer to the origin than to any edge.
Sketch the region ‘S’ and find its area.
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25. Find the area of the region satisfying | y |   1 | x | .
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26. Find the area of the region satisfying | y |   e |x|
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27. Find the area of the bounded region satisfying |y| + 2|x|  x2 + 1
28. Find the area of the region satisfying 4  x2 + y2  2 (|x| + |y|)
29. Find the area of the region satisfying |x2 + y2 – 2|  2 (x + y)
30. Find the area of the region satisfying max.{|x|, |y|}  1.
31. Find the area of the region satisfying |x| + |y|  1.
32. Find the area of the region satisfying |x + y| + |x – y|  1.
33. Find the area of the region satisfying |x – 1| + |y – 2|  1.
34. Find the area of the region which contains all the points satisfying the conditions
|x – 2y| + |x + 2y|  8 and xy  2.
35. Find the area of the region satisfying [|x|] + [|y|] = 2, []  G.I.F.
36. Find the area of bounded by two branches of the curve (y – x)2 = x3 and the line x = 1.
37. Find the area of the loop (y – sin–1x)2 = x – x2.
38. Find the continuous function f(x), (x4 – 4x2)  f(x)  (2x2 – x3) such that the area bounded by
y = f(x), y = x4 – 4x2, y–axis and the line x = t (0  t  2) is 3 times the area bounded by
y = f(x) y = 2x2 – x3, y–axis and the line x = t (0  t  2).
39. Z is a variable point on the argand plane such that 3  |z|  5 and /4  arg z  /3. Find the
area of the region in which z lies.
et  e t et  e t
40. Prove that for any real t, x  and y  is a point on the hyperbola x2 – y2 = 1.
2 2
Hence show that the area bounded by the hyperbola and the lines joining its centre to the
points corresponding to t1 and –t1 is t1.
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41. Find b  R+ so that the area bounded by the curves y = x – bx2 and y = x 2 is maximum.
b
n
42. Let An be the area bounded by the curve y = (tan x) nN and the lines x = 0, y = 0 and x
1 1 1
=/4. Prove that for n  2, An + An – 2 = and deduce that  An  .
n 1 2n  2 2n  2
43. Let Ar be the area of the region bounded between the curve y2 = (e–kr)x, k > 0 rN and the
line y = mx, k and m are some constants. Show that A1, A2, A3, … are in geometric
progression. Also find the sum to infinite terms to this G.P.
44. If the line y = mx divides the area enclosed by the lines x = 0, y = 0, x = 3/2 and the curve y =
1 + 4x – x2 into two equal parts, find m.
45. Find out the area enclosed by the circle x2 + y2 = 4, parabola y = x2 + x + 1, the curve y =
[sin2(x/4) + cos (x/4)] and x–axis. [ . ]  G.I.F.
3 b
46. Sketch the graph of |x – ai| + |y| = bi, (i  N), where ai + 1 = ai + bi, bi + 1 = i , a1 = 0,
2 2
b1 = 32, from i = 1 to 3. Also find the sum of area of all the loops from i = 1 to .
47. Identify the region satisfying |x + 3y| + |x – y|  4 and find its area.
48. Consider a rectangle with vertices A (–1, –1), B (3, – 1), C (3, 2), D( – 1, 2).
Inside the rectangle, the point P is such that d(P, AB)  max {d(P, BC), d(P, CD), d(P, DA)}.
Identify the region containing all possible position of the point P and find its area.
Write–up (49–51)
Let Ar (rN) be the area of the bounded region whose boundary is defined by
(63ry2 – x) (6e2 y – x) = 0
49. Prove that A1 , A 2 , A3 , ... are in H.P.
50. Find lim [ A1A 2 A 3  A 2 A 3 A 4  A 3A 4 A5  ... n terms]
n 

  1A 
1
A2

1
A3

51. Find lim e 1
e e  ... n terms 
n 
 
52. Find the largest area of a rectangle which has one side on the x–axis and two vertices on the

2  2 
curve y  e  x is  given  e  x dx  .
 0
2 
53. Find the area bounded by the curve y = x (x – 1) (x – 2) and the axis of x.
54. Find the area given by x + y  6, x2 + y2  6y and y2  8x.
 2x for | x |  1
55. Let f(x) be a continuous function given by f(x) =  2 . Find a, b and the
 x  ax  b for | x |  1
area of the region in the third quadrant bounded by the curves, x = –2y2 and y = f(x) lying on
the left of the line 8x + 1 = 0.
56. Find the area of the region bounded by the curves y = x2, y = |2 – x2| and y = 2, which lies to
the right of the line x = 1.
57. Find the area of the region satisfying 2  |x + 3y| + |x - y|  4.
x2 y2
58. Prove that the area bounded by the ellipse 2  2  1 is ab.
a b
Answers to Mathematics – Assignment (Area)
1. 1/ 2 2. 8/3 3. 64 / 3
4. 10 / 3 5. 4 : 121 6. 7/6
17 e 5
7. 8.  9. 4
27 4 4e
10. /3 – 3 /2 11. 2/3 12. 2
4  3ln 3 25 1  4 
13. 9 14. 15. 2 sin   .
3 2 5
4 a
16. tan 1   18. f(x) = 3(x - 1) cos(3x + 4) + sin (3x + 4)
ab b
x
19. f(x) = 2x  2 20. f(x) = 21. x3 - x2
2
1 x
4
22. 9/4 sq. units. 23. (2  3) 24. ( 2  1) (3  2)
3
25. 2 26. 2(1 – ln2) 27. 4/3
28. 8 29. 2( + 2) 30. 4
31. 2 32. 1 33. 2
34. 4 (3 – ln 4) sq. units 35. 12 4/5
36.
 1 4
37. 38. f (x)  (x  3x  2x ) 39. 2
3 2

4 4 3
41. 1 43. 1/[6m3(e2k – 1)]. 44. 13/6.
2 1 213
45.  3 46. sq. units 47. Parallelogram, 8 sq. units.
3 6 3
3 1
9
15 1 e   3 
48. A trapezium, sq. units 50.   51.  e e  1
4 4   
 
52. 2/e 53. 1/2 54. 9/4 – 1/6
257  20 
55. a = 2, b = –1, area = 56.   4 2  sq. units. 57. 6
192  3 