Angles Between Planes and Bisectors

Calculate angles between planes, find angle bisectors, and determine conditions for perpendicular planes in 3D geometry

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the planes bisecting the acute angle between the planes $x-y+2x+1=0$ and $2x+y+z+2=0$

  1. $x+z-1=0$
  2. $x+z+1=0$
  3. $x-z-1=0$
  4. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The planes $x-3y+4z-1=0$ and $kx-4y+3z-5=0$ are perpendicular then value of $k$ is

  1. $24$
  2. $-24$
  3. $12$
  4. $0$
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The equation of the plane which bisects the angle between the planes $3x-6y+2z+5=0$ and $4x-12y+3z-3=0$ which contains the origin is ?

  1. $33x-13y+32z+45=0$
  2. $x-3y+z-5=0$
  3. $33x+13y+32z+45=0$
  4. $None\ of\ these$
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The corner of a square OPQR is folded up so that the plane OPQ is perpendicular to the plane OQR, the angle between OP and QR is 

  1. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 2 } $
  2. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 3 } $
  3. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 4 } $
  4. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 6 } $
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the plane passing through the points $A(0,\ 0,\ 0),\ B(1,\ 1,\ 1),\ C(3,\ 2,\ 1)$ & the plane passing through $A(0,\ 0,\ 0),\ B(1,\ 1,\ 1), D(3,\ 1,\ 2)$ is

  1. $90^{o}$
  2. $45^{o}$
  3. $120^{o}$
  4. $30^{o}$
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the planes
$\vec{r}(\hat{i}+2\hat{j}+\hat{k})=4$ and $\vec{r}(\hat{-i}+\hat{j}+2\hat{k})=9$

  1. $30^{\mathrm{o}}$
  2. $60^{\mathrm{o}}$
  3. $45^{\mathrm{o}}$
  4. $90^{0}$
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the cosine of angle between the planes $x + y + z + I = 0$ and $2x-2y+2x+I=0$ ?

  1. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{3}$
  3. $\dfrac{2}{3}$
  4. None of the above
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the planes $2x-3y-6z=5$ and $6x+2y-9z=4$ is

  1. ${\cos ^{ - 1}}\left( {\dfrac{{30}}{{77}}} \right)$
  2. ${\cos ^{ - 1}}\left( {\dfrac{{40}}{{77}}} \right)$
  3. ${\cos ^{ - 1}}\left( {\dfrac{{50}}{{77}}} \right)$
  4. ${\cos ^{ - 1}}\left( {\dfrac{{60}}{{77}}} \right)$
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If vectors $\bar{b}=\left(\tan\alpha, -1 2\sqrt{\sin \dfrac{\alpha}{2}}\right)$ and $\bar{c}=\left(\tan \alpha , \tan\alpha -\dfrac{3}{\sqrt{\sin \alpha/2}}\right)$ are orthogonal and vector $\bar{a}=(1, 3, \sin 2\alpha)$ make an obtuse angle with the z-axis, then?

  1. $\alpha =\tan^{-1}(-2)$
  2. $\alpha =\tan^{-1}(-3)$
  3. $\alpha =\tan^{-1}(2)$
  4. $-2 < \alpha < 0$
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Let $\overrightarrow{A}$ be vector parallel to the line of intersection of planes ${p} _{1}$ and ${p} _{2}$ through the origin. ${p} _{1}$ is parallel to the vectors $\overrightarrow{a}=2\hat{j}+3\hat{k}$ and $\overrightarrow{b}=4\hat{j}-3\hat{k}$ and ${p} _{2}$ is parallel to the vectors $\overrightarrow{c}=\hat{j}-\hat{k}$ and $\overrightarrow{d}=3\hat{i}+3\hat{j}$. The angle between $\overrightarrow{A}$ and $2\hat{i}+\hat{j}-2\hat{k}$ is 

  1. $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$
  2. $\dfrac{\pi}{4}$
  3. $\dfrac{\pi}{6}$
  4. $\dfrac{3\pi}{4}$
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Let $\overrightarrow{A}$ be vector parallel to the line of intersection of planes ${p} _{1}$ and ${p} _{2}$ through the origin. ${p} _{1}$ is parallel to the vectors $\overrightarrow{a}=2\hat{j}+3\hat{k}$ and $\overrightarrow{b}=4\hat{j}-3\hat{k}$ and ${p} _{2}$ is parallel to the vectors $\overrightarrow{c}=\hat{j}-\hat{k}$ and $\overrightarrow{d}=3\hat{i}+3\hat{j}$. The angle between $\overrightarrow{A}$ and $2\hat{i}+\hat{j}-2\hat{k}$ is:

  1. $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$
  2. $\dfrac{\pi}{4}$
  3. $\dfrac{\pi}{6}$
  4. $\dfrac{3\pi}{4}$
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let $\overrightarrow{a},\overrightarrow{b},\overrightarrow{c},\overrightarrow{d}$ are such that $\left(\overrightarrow{a}\times \overrightarrow{b}\right)\times \left(\overrightarrow{c}\times \overrightarrow{d}\right)=0$.Let ${p} _{1}$ and ${p} _{2}$ be the planes determined by the pairs of vectors $\overrightarrow{a},\overrightarrow{b}$ and $\overrightarrow{c},\overrightarrow{d}$ respectively . The angle between the planes ${p} _{1}$ and ${p} _{2}$ is

  1. $0$
  2. $\dfrac{\pi}{4}$
  3. $\dfrac{\pi}{3}$
  4. $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The equation of the bisector of the obtuse angle between the planes $3x+4y-5z+1=0, 5x+12y-13z=0$ is

  1. $11x+4y-3z=0$
  2. $14x-8y+13=0$
  3. $2x+8y-8z-1=0$
  4. $13x-7z+18=0$
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

The equations of the plane which passes through $(0, 0, 0)$ and which is equally inclined to the planes $x-y+z-3=0$ and $x+y+z+4=0$ is/are-

  1. $y=0$
  2. $x=0$
  3. $x+y=0$
  4. $x+z=0$
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between planes $\overline { r } .\left( 2\overline { i } -3\overline { j } +4\overline { k }  \right) +11=0$ and $\overline { r } .\left( 3\overline { i } -2\overline { j } -3\overline { k }  \right) +27=0$ is

  1. $\cfrac{\pi}{6}$
  2. $\cfrac{\pi}{4}$
  3. $\cfrac{\pi}{3}$
  4. $\cfrac{\pi}{2}$
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Find the equation of the bisector planes of the angles between the planes $2x - y + 2z + 3 = 0$ and $3x - 2y + 6z + 8 = 0$.

  1. $ 5x-y-4z-22=0$
  2. $ 23x-13y+32z+26 = 0 $
  3. $ 19x-y-4z+26 = 0 $
  4. none of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between two planes is equal to

  1. the angle between the tangents to them from any point
  2. the angle between the normals to them from any point
  3. the angle between the lines parallel to the planes from any point
  4. None of the above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

lf the planes $ x+2y-z+5=0,\ 2x-ky+4z+3=0$ are perpendicular, then $ {k} $ is

  1. $1$
  2. $-1$
  3. $0$
  4. $2$
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the space the equation $by+ cz+ d= 0$ represents a plane perpendicular to the plane:

  1. $YOZ$
  2. $ZOX$
  3. $XOY$
  4. $Z= k$
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the planes $ 2x-y+ \lambda z- 5=0$ and $x+4y+2z- 7= 0$ are perpendicular, then $\lambda=$

  1. $1$
  2. $-1$
  3. $2$
  4. $-2$
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the planes $\vec{r}. (2\widehat{i}- \widehat{j}+ 2\widehat{k})= 4$ and $\vec{r}. (3\widehat{i}+ 2\widehat{j}+\lambda\widehat{k})= 3$ are perpendicular, then $\lambda =$

  1. $2$
  2. $-2$
  3. $3$
  4. $-3$
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the planes, $\vec{r}.(2\widehat{i}- \widehat{j}+\widehat {k})=6$ and $\vec{r}.(\widehat{i}+ \widehat{j}+2\widehat {k})=5$ , is:

  1. $\dfrac{\pi}{3}$
  2. $\dfrac{2\pi}{3}$
  3. $\dfrac{\pi}{6}$
  4. $\dfrac{5\pi}{6}$
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the planes $ 3x-6y+2z+5=0 $ 7 $ 4x-12y+3z=3 $.Which is bisected by the plane
$ 67x-162y+47z+44 = 0 $is the angle which-

  1. contains origin
  2. is acute
  3. is obtuse
  4. is right angle
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A plane$ P _{1}$ has the equation $2x-y+z=4$ and the plane $P _{2}$ has the equation $x+ny+2z=11.$ If the angle between $P _{1}$ and $P _{2}$ is $\pi /3$ then the value (s) of '$n$' is (are)

  1. $7/2$
  2. $17,-1$
  3. $-17,1$
  4. $-7/2$
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the planes $\displaystyle x + y + z = 0$ and $\displaystyle 3x - 4y + 5z = 0$ is

  1. $\displaystyle \cos ^{-1}\left ( \frac{1}{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{5}} \right )$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{\pi }{2}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{\pi }{3}$
  4. $\displaystyle \cos ^{-1}\left ( \frac{2}{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{3}} \right )$
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following planes is equally inclined to the planes $\displaystyle 4x + 3y - 5z = 0$ and $\displaystyle 5x - 12y + 13z = 0$?

  1. $\displaystyle 11x - 3y = 0$
  2. $\displaystyle 3x + 11y = 0$
  3. $\displaystyle 3x + 11y = 65z$
  4. none of these
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The equation of the plane bisecting the acute angle between the planes $\displaystyle x - y + z - 1 = 0$ and $\displaystyle x + y + z = 2$ is

  1. $\displaystyle x + z = \frac{3}{2}$
  2. $\displaystyle 2y = 1$
  3. $\displaystyle x - y - z = 3$
  4. None of these
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An angle between the plane, x+y+z=5 and the line of intersection of the planes, 3x+4y+z-1=0 and 5x+8y+2z+14=0, is

  1. $

    \sin ^ { - 1 } ( 3 / \sqrt { 17 } )

    $
  2. $

    \cos ^ { - 1 } ( \sqrt { 3 / 17 } )

    $
  3. $

    \sin ^ { - 1 } ( \sqrt { 3 / 17 } )

    $
  4. $

    \cos ^ { - 1 } ( 3 / \sqrt { 17 } )

    $
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between the planes $\bar { r } \cdot \bar { n _{ 1 } } =\left| \bar { { d } _{ 1 } }  \right| $ and $\bar { r } \cdot \bar { n _{ 2 } } =\left| \bar { { d } _{ 2 } }  \right| $

  1. $\cos^{-1}\left(\displaystyle \frac{\bar{n _{1} }\cdot\bar{d} _{1}}{\left | \bar{d} _{1}\times \bar{d} _{2} \right |}\right)$
  2. $\cos^{-1}\left(\displaystyle \frac{\bar{n} _{1}.\bar{n} _{2}}{\left |\bar{n} _{1} \right |\left | \bar{n} _{2} \right |}\right)$
  3. $\cos^{-1}\left(\displaystyle \frac{\bar{n} _{1}\bar{n} _{2}}{\bar{n} _{1}\times \bar{n} _{2} }\right)$
  4. $\cos^{-1}\left(\displaystyle \frac{\bar{n} _{1}\cdot \left | \bar{d} _{2} \right |}{\left | \bar{n} _{1} \right |\left | \bar{n} _{2} \right |}\right)$
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The tetrahedron has vertices $0\left ( 0,0,0 \right ),A\left ( 1,2,1 \right ),B\left ( 2,1,3 \right )$ and $C\left ( -1,1,2 \right )$, then  the angle between the faces $OAB$ and $ABC$ will be

  1. $\displaystyle \cos ^{-1}\frac{17}{31}$
  2. $30^{0}$
  3. $90^{0}$
  4. $\displaystyle \cos ^{-1}\frac{19}{35}$
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let $A(0,0,0),B(1,1,1),C(3,2,1)$ and $D(3,1,2)$ be four points. The angle between the planes through the points $A,B,C$ and through the points $A,B,D$ is

  1. $\displaystyle \dfrac { \pi }{ 2 } $
  2. $\displaystyle \dfrac { \pi }{ 6 } $
  3. $\displaystyle \dfrac { \pi }{ 4 } $
  4. $\displaystyle \dfrac { \pi }{ 3 } $
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The angle between two planes $\displaystyle r.n=q$ and $\displaystyle r.n'=q'$ is

  1. $\displaystyle \sin ^{-1}\left ( \frac{n.n'}{nn'} \right )$
  2. $\displaystyle \cos ^{-1}\left ( \frac{n.n'}{nn'} \right )$
  3. $\displaystyle \tan ^{-1}\left ( \frac{n.n'}{nn'} \right )$
  4. None of these
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The sine of angle formed by the lateral face ADC and plane of the base ABC of the tetrahedron ABCD where $\displaystyle a\equiv (3, -2, 1); B\equiv (3, 1, 5); C\equiv (4, 0, 3)and D\equiv (1, 0, 0)is$

  1. $\displaystyle \frac{2}{\sqrt{29}}$
  2. $\displaystyle \frac{5}{\sqrt{29}}$
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{3\sqrt3}{\sqrt{29}}$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac{-2}{\sqrt{29}}$
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

The equation of a plane bisecting the angle between the plane $2x -y + 2z + 3 = 0$ and $3x- 2y + 6z + 8 = 0$ is

  1. $5x - y - 4z - 45 = 0$
  2. $5x - y - 4z -3 = 0$
  3. $23x - 13y + 32z + 45 = 0$
  4. $23x - 13y + 32z + 5 = 0$
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Equation of the plane bisecting the acute angle between the planes  $x+2y-2z-9=0,\ 3x-4y+12z-26=0$ is

  1. $2(4x+17y-31z)+36=0$
  2. $8x-16y+4z+27=0$
  3. $16x-32y+8z-27=0$
  4. None of these
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Equation of the plane bisecting the angle between the planes $2x-y+2z+3=0$ and $3x-2y+6z+8=0$

  1. $5x-y-4z-45=0$
  2. $5x-y-4z-3=0$
  3. $23x+13y+32z-45=0$
  4. $23x-13y+32z+5=0$
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let two planes $p _{1}:2x-y+z=2$, and $p _{2}:x+2y-z=3$ are given. The equation of the acute angle bisector of planes $P _{1}$ and $P _{2}$ is

  1. $x-3y+2z+1=0$
  2. $3x+y-5=0$
  3. $x+3y-2z+1=0$
  4. $3x +z+7=0$
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two planes are prependicular  to one another. One of them contains vector $\vec{a}, \vec{b}$ and the other contains $\vec{c}, \vec{d}$ then $(\vec{a} \times \vec{b}) . (\vec{c}\times \vec{d}) = $

  1. $1$
  2. $0$
  3. $[\vec{a} \vec{b} \vec{c} ]$
  4. $[ \vec{b} \vec{c} \vec{d} ]$
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Tetrahedron has Vertices at $O(0,0,0)$ , $A(1,2, 1)$ , $B(2,1,3)$ , $C(-1,1,2)$ . Then the angle between the faces $OAB$ and $ABC$ will be

  1. $\cos^{-1} (\dfrac{19}{35})$


  2. $\cos^{-1} (\dfrac{17}{31})$
  3. $30^{0}$
  4. $90^{0}$
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Consider the planes $3x-6y+2z+5=0$ and $4x-12y+3z=3$. The plane $67x-162y+47z+44=0$ bisects the angle between the given planes which-

  1. Contains origin
  2. Is acute
  3. Is obtuse
  4. None of these
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Angle between planes $2x-y+z$ $=$ $6$ and $x+y+2z$ $=$ $7,$ is -

  1. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 4 } $
  2. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 2 } $
  3. $\dfrac { \pi }{ 3 } $
  4. $\dfrac {- \pi }{ 4 } $
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The equation of the plane bisecting the angle between the planes $\displaystyle 3x +4y = 4$ and $\displaystyle 6x - 2y + 3z + 5 = 0$ that contains the origin, is

  1. $\displaystyle 9x - 38y + 15z + 43 = 0$
  2. $\displaystyle 51x + 18y + 15z = 3$
  3. $\displaystyle 9x + 2y + 3z + 1 = 0$
  4. $\displaystyle 17x + 9y + 15z = 26$
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The equation of the plane bisecting the obtuse angle between the planes $\displaystyle x+y+z= 1$ and $\displaystyle x+2y-4z= 5$ is

  1. $\displaystyle \left ( \sqrt{7}-1 \right )x+\left ( \sqrt{7}-2 \right )y+\left ( \sqrt{7}+4 \right )z+5-\sqrt{7}= 0$
  2. $\displaystyle \left ( \sqrt{7}+1 \right )x+\left ( \sqrt{7}+2 \right )y+\left ( \sqrt{7}+4 \right )z+5-\sqrt{7}= 0$
  3. $\displaystyle \left ( \sqrt{7}+1 \right )x+\left ( \sqrt{7}+2 \right )y+\left ( \sqrt{7}-4 \right )z=\sqrt{7}$
  4. None of these
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let two planes $p _{1}:2x-y+z=2$, and $p _{2}:x+2y-z=3$ are given. The equation of the bisector of angle of the planes  $P _{1}$ and $P _{2}$ which does not contains origin, is

  1. $x-3y+2z+1=0$
  2. $x+3y=5$
  3. $x+3y+2z+2=0$
  4. $3x+y=5$

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