Area Under Curves 385

Area of Bounded Region

Basic Level

1. Area under the curve y  x 2  4 x within the x-axis and the line x=2, is [SCRA 1991]
16 16 4
(a) sq. units (b)  sq. units (c) sq. units (d) Cannot be calculated
3 3 7
2. The area bounded by the curve y  4 x  x 2 and the x-axis is [MP PET 1999, 2003]
30 31 32 34
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) sq. units
7 7 3 3
3. The area between the curve y  4  3 x  x 2 and x-axis is [Rajasthan PET 2001]
125 125 125
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
6 3 2
4. Area under the curve y  3 x  4 between x  0 and x  4 , is [Al CBSE 1979,1980]
56 64
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) 8 sq. units (d) None of these
9 9
5. The area bounded by the curve y  x 3 , x- axis and two ordinates x  1 to x  2 equal to [MP PET 1999]
15 15 17 17
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) sq. units
2 4 2 4
3
6. If the area above the x-axis, bounded by the curves y  2 kx and x  0 and x  2 is , then the value of k is [Orissa JEE 2003]
ln 2
1
(a) (b) 1 (c) 1 (d) 2
2
7. Area bounded by curve y  x 3 , x-axis and ordinates x  1 and x  4 , is
127 255
(a) 64 sq. units (b) 27 sq. units (c) sq. units (d) sq. units
4 4
8. Area bounded by curve xy  c , x-axis between x  1 and x  4 , is
(a) c log 3 sq. units (b) 2 log c sq. units (c) 2c log 2 sq. units (d) 2c log5 sq. units
9. The measurement of the area bounded by the coordinate axes and the curve y  log e x is [MP PET 1998]
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 
10. The area bounded by the curve y  log x , the x- axis and ordinate x  e is [MP PET 1994]
(a) e (b) 1 (c)  (d) None of these
11. Area bounded by the curve y  log x , x-axis and the ordinates x  1, x  2 is
(a) log 4 sq. units (b) log 4+1 sq. units (c) log 4-1 sq. units (d) None of these
x2
12. Area bounded by the curve y  x e , x-axis and the ordinates x=0, x=a is
2 2
ea  1 ea 1 2 2
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) e a  1 sq. units (d) e a  1 sq. units
2 2
a2
13. If area bounded by the curves y 2  4 ax and y  mx is , then the value of m is
3
(a) 2 (b) – 2 (c) 1/2 (d) None of these
14. The area of the region (in the square units) bounded by the curve x  4 y , line x  2 and x-axis is
2
[MP PET 2002]
386 Area Under Curves
2 4 8
(a) 1 (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3
15. Area bounded by the parabola y  4 x 2 , y- axis and the lines y  1 , y  4 is
7 7
(a) 3 sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) None of these
5 3
16. Area bounded by parabola y 2  x and straight line 2 y  x is [MP PET 1996]

4 2 1
(a) (b) 1 (c) (d)
3 3 3
17. Area enclosed by the parabola ay  3(a 2  x 2 ) and x-axis is
(a) 4 a 2 sq. units (b) 12a 2 sq. units (c) 4 a 3 sq. units (d) None of these

18. The area enclosed by the curve y  sin x , y  0 , x  0 and x  is [MP PET 1995]
2
(a)  (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) 2
19. Area bounded by the curve y  sin x between x  0 and x  2 is
(a) 2 sq. units (b) 4 sq. units (c) 8 sq. units (d) None of these
20. Area bounded by the curve y  k sin x between x=  and x  2 , is
2
(a) 2 sq. units (b) 0 (c) sq. units (d)  sq. units
2
  
21. The area of the region bounded by the x-axis and the curves defined by y  tan x    x   is [Kurukshetra CEE 1998]
 3 3

(a) log 2 (b)  log 2 (c) 2 log 2 (d) 0


22. The area between the curve y  sin 2 x , x-axis and the ordinates x=0 and x  is [Rajasthan PET 1996]
2
  
(a) (b) (c) (d) 
2 4 8

23. Area of the region bounded by the curve y  tan x , tangent drawn to the curve at x  and the x-axis is [DCE 2002]
4
1 1 1
(a) (b) log 2  (c) log 2  (d) None of the above
4 4 4

24. The ratio of the areas bounded by the curves y  cos x and y  cos 2 x between x  0 , x  and x- axis, is [MP PET 1997]
3
(a) 2 :1 (b) 1:1 (c) 1:2 (d) 2:1

25. The area bounded by the curve y  sec x , the x-axis and the lines x=0 and x  is [Tamilnadu PCEE 2002]
4
1
(a) log( 2  1) (b) log( 2  1) (c) log 2 (d) 2
2
26. The area bounded by y  [x ] and the two ordinates x=1 and x=1.7 is
17 17 7
(a) (b) 1 (c) (d)
10 5 10
27. The value of k for which the area of the figure bounded by the curve y  8 x 2  x 5 , the straight line x = 1 and x = k and the x-axis is equal to
16
3

(a) 2 (b) 3
8  17 (c) 3 (d) – 1

Advance Level
 Area Under Curves 387

28. The area of the region bounded by the curves y | x  2 | , x  1 , x  3 and the x-axis is [AIEEE 2004]
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 1
29. The area of the region bounded by y  x  1 and y  1 is [IIT Screening 1994]
(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 1/2 (d) None of these
30. Area bounded by lines y  2  x , y  2  x and x  2 is [MP PET1996]
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 16
31. Area enclosed between the curve y 2 (2a  x )  x 3 and line x  2a above x-axis is [MP PET 2001]

3a 2
(a) a2 (b) (c) 2a2 (d) 3a2
2
32. Area bounded by the curve xy  3 x  2 y  10  0 , x-axis and the lines x  3 , x  4 is [AI CBSE 1991]
(a) 16 log 2  3 (b) 16 log 2  13 (c) 16 log 2  3 (d) None of these
33. The area of the triangle formed by the tangent to the hyperbola xy  a and coordinate axes is
2
[Rajasthan PET 2000]
2 2 2 2
(a) a (b) 2a (c) 3a (d) 4a
34. If a curve y  a x  bx passes through the point (1, 2) and the area bounded by the curve, line x  4 and x-axis is 8 square units, then
[MP PET 2002]
(a) a  3, b  1 (b) a  3, b  1 (c) a  3, b  1 (d) a  3, b  1
35. The area bounded by the curve y  f (x ) , x-axis and ordinates x = 1 and x = b is (b  1) sin(3b  4 ) then f (x ) is
[Rajasthan PET 2000]
(a) 3(x  1) cos( 3 x  4 )  sin(3 x  4 ) (b) (b  1) sin(3 x  4 )  3 cos(3 x  4 )
(c) (b  1) cos(3 x  4 )  3 sin(3 x  4 ) (d) None of these
36. The area enclosed by the parabola y  4 ax and the straight line y  2 ax , is
2
[MP PET 1993]
2
a 1 1 2
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) sq. units
3 3a2 3a 3a
37. The area bounded by the curve x  at 2 , y  2at and the x-axis in 1  t  3 is. [Pb. CET 1998]

26 a 2 104 a 2
(a) 26 a 2 (b) 8 a2 (c) (d)
3 3

38. If An be the area bounded by the curve y  (tan x )n and the lines x=0, y=0 and x  , then for n>2 [IIT 1996, Him. UCET 2002]
4
1 1 1
(a) An  An  2  (b) An  An  2  (c) An  An  2  (d) None of these
n 1 n 1 n 1
39. The area between the curve y  2 x 4  x 2 , the axis and the ordinates of two minima of the curve is
7 9 11
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
120 120 120
40. The slope of the tangent to a curve y  f (x ) at (x , f ( x )) is 2 x  1 . If the curve passes through the point (1, 2), then the area of the region
bounded be the curve, the x-axis and the line x=1 is [IIT 1995]
5 6 1
(a) (b) (c) 6 (d)
6 5 6

Symmetrical Area

Basic Level

41. The area bounded by the x-axis and the curve y  sin x and x  0 , x   is [Kerala (Engg.)2002]
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
42. The area of the curve xy  a (a  x ) bounded by y-axis is
2 2
[Rajasthan PET 1996]

(a) a 2
(b) 2a 2
(c) 3a 2
(d) 4a 2
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43. The area bounded by the parabola y 2  4 ax , its axis and two ordinates x  4 , x  9 is

152 a
(a) 4 a2 (b) 4 a 2 .4 (c) 4 a 2 (9  4 ) (d)
3
44. Area bounded by the parabola y 2  2 x and the ordinates x  1 , x  4 is

4 2 28 2 56
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) None of these
3 3 3
45. Area bounded by the parabola y 2  4 ax and its latus rectum is [Rajasthan PET 1997, 2000, 2002]

2 2 4 2 8 2 3 2
(a) a sq. units (b) a sq. units (c) a sq. units (d) a sq. units
3 3 3 8
46. The area between the curve y 2  4 ax , x-axis and the ordinates x  0 and x  a is [Rajasthan PET 1996]

4 2 8 2 2 2 5 2
(a) a (b) a (c) a (d) a
3 3 3 2
x2 y2
47. Area of the ellipse   1 is [Karnataka CET 1993]
a2 b 2
1 1
(a) π ab sq. units (b)  ab sq. units (c)  ab sq. units (d) None of these
2 4
48. The area of the smaller segment cut off from the circle x 2  y 2  9 by x  1 is [Rajasthan PET 2002]

1
(a) (9 sec 1 3  8 ) (b) 9 sec 1 (3)  8 (c) 8  9 sec 1 3 (d) None of these
2
49. The area of the upper half of the circle whose equation is (x  1)2  y 2  1 is given by [Kurukshetra CEE 1995]


  
2 1 2
(a) 2 x  x 2 dx (b) 2 x  x 2 dx (c) 2 x  x 2 dx (d)
0 0 1 4

Advance Level

50. The area bounded by the curves y  ln x, y  ln | x |, y | ln x | and y | ln || x | is [AIEEE 2002]

(a) 4 sq. units (b) 6 sq. units (c) 10 sq. units (d) None of these
51. Ratio of the area cut off a parabola by any double ordinate is that of the corresponding rectangle contained by that double ordinate and its
distance from the vertex is
1 1 2
(a) (b) (c) (d) 1
2 3 3
52. The area bounded by the curves x  a cos 3 t, y  a sin 3 t is

3a 2 3a 2 3a 2

(a) (b) (c) (d) 3a2
8 16 32

Area between Two curves

Basic Level

53. The area bounded by the curves y  x, 2y  3  x and x-axis in the 1st quadrant is [IIT 2003]
27
(a) 9 (b) (c) 36 (d) 18
4
54. The area of region { (x , y ) : x 2  y 2  1  x  y} is [Kerala (Engg.) 2002]

2 2 2  1
(a) (b) (c) (d) 
5 2 3 4 2
55. The area bounded by the curve y  x , x-axis and ordinates x  1 to x  2 is [Rajasthan PET 2001]
 Area Under Curves 389
(a) 0 (b) 1/2 (c) 3/2 (d) 5/2
56. The area bounded by the curves y | x | 1 and y   | x | 1 is [IIT Screening 2002]

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 2 2 (d) 4

57. The area bounded by the straight lines x  0, x  2 and the curves y  2 , y  2 x  x
x 2
is [AMU 2001]
4 1 3 4 4 3 4
(a)  (b)  (c) 1 (d) 
3 log 2 log 2 3 log 2 log 2 3
58. The area of figure bounded by y  e x , y  e  x and the straight line x  1 is [Karnataka CET 1999]
1 1 1 1
(a) e  (b) e  (c) e   2 (d) e 2
e e e e
59. The area bounded by the curves y  log e x and y  (log e x ) 2 is [Rajasthan PET 2000]
1 1
(a) 3  e (b) e  3 (c) (3  e ) (d) (e  3)
2 2
60. The area bounded by the curves y 2  x  0 and y  x 2  0 is [MP PET 1997]
7 1 5
(a) (b) (c) (d) 1
3 3 3
61. The area enclosed by the parabolas y  x 2  1 and y  1  x 2 is [AMU 1999]
1 2 4 8
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3 3
62. The area bounded by curve y 2  x , line y  4 and y-axis is [Roorkee 1995; Rajasthan PET 2003]
16 64
(a) (b) (c) 7 2 (d) None of these
3 3
63. Area included between the two curves y 2  4 ax and x 2  4 ay , is
[SCRA 1986; Roorkee 1984; Rajasthan PET 1999; Kerala (Engg.)2002]
32 2 16 32 16 2
(a) a sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) a sq. units
3 3 3 3
64. Area bounded by the curve x 2  4 y and the straight line x  4 y  2, is [SCRA 1986; IIT 1981]
8 9 4
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) None of these
9 8 3
65. What is the area bounded by the curves x 2  y 2  9 and y 2  8 x [DCE 1999]

2 2 9 1
(a) 0 (b)   9 sin 1   (c) 16  (d) None of these
3 2 3
66. The area bounded by the circle x 2  y 2  4 , line x  3 y and x- axis lying in the first quadrant, is
[Rajasthan PET 1997, Kurukshetra CEE 1998]
  
(a) (b) (c) (d) 
2 4 3
67. The area in the first quadrant between x 2  y 2   2 and y  sin x is [MP PET 1997]
(  8 )
3
 3
(  16 )
3
(  8 )
3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 3 4 2
68. For 0  x   , the area bounded by y = x and y  x  sin x , is [Roorkee Quqalifying 1998]
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 4
69. Area bounded by y  x sin x and x-axis between x  0 and x  2 , is [Roorkee 1981; Rajasthan PET 1995]
(a) 0 (b) 2 sq. units (c)  sq. units (d) 4 sq. units

70. The area bounded by curves y  cos x and y  sin x and ordinates x  0 and x  is [Karnataka CET 2002]
4
(a) 2 (b) 2 1 (c) 2 1 (d) 2 ( 2  1)
71. The area formed by triangular shaped region bounded by the curves y  sin x, y  cos x and x  0 is [MP PET 2000]

(a) 2 1 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 1 2

390 Area Under Curves
72. Area between the curve y  cos x and x-axis when 0  x  2 , is [MP PET 1997]
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 0
2 2
x y
73. AOB is the positive quadrant of the ellipse   1 where OA = a, OB = b. Then area between the arc AB and chord AB of the ellipse is
a2 b 2
ab(  2) ab(  2)
(a) ab (b) (  2)ab (c) (d)
4 4

Advance Level
9
74. For which of the following values of m, the area of the region bounded by the curve y  x  x 2 and the line y  mx equals
2
[IIT 1999]
(a) – 4 (b) – 2 (c) 2 (d) 4
75. The area of the figure bounded by the curves y  x  1 and y  3  x , is [AIEEE 2003; Orissa JEE 2003]

1 2

(a) 2 sq. units (b) 3 sq. units (c) 4 sq. units (d) 1 sq. units
 8 
76. If the ordinate x  a divides the area bounded by the curve y   1  2  , x-axis and the ordinates x  2 , x  4 into two equal parts, then
 x 
a= [IIT 1983]

(a) 8 (b) 2 2 (c) 2 (d) 2

77. The area of the region lying inside x 2  (y  1)2  1 and out side c 2 x 2  y 2  c 2 , where c  ( 2  1) is [Roorkee 1999]
 1  1  1
(a) (4  2 )  (b) (4  2 )  (c) (4  2 )  (d) None of these
4 2 4 2 4 2
1
78. The area enclosed between the curves y  log e (x  e) , x  log e (x  e) , x  log e   and the x-axis, is
y
[Roorkee 1990; Pb. CET 2002]
(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 4 (d) None of these
5
79. The area of the region formed by x 2  y 2  6 x  4 y  12  0, y  x and x  is [Roorkee 1996; PUCET 2002]
2

 3 1  3 1  3 1
(a)  (b)  (c)  (d) None of these
6 8 6 8 6 8
1 2
80. If the area bounded by the curves y  x  bx 2 and y  x , where b>0 is maximum, then b= [IIT 1997]
b
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) None of these
81. Let f(x)= Maximum [ x 2 , (1  x 2 ), 2 x (1  x )] where 0  x  1 . The area of the region bounded by the curves y  f (x ) , x-axis, x  0 and
x  1 is [IIT 1997; IIIT Hydrabad 2002]
17 14 19
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
27 27 27
 x 2  2, x  1
82. The area of the closed figure bounded by x  1 and x  2 and y   and the abscissa axis is
2 x  1, x  1
16 10 13 7
(a) sq. units (b) sq. units (c) sq. units (d) sq. units
3 3 3 3
Volumes and surfaces of Solids of Revolution

Basic Level
 Area Under Curves 391

83. The volume of the solid formed by rotating the area enclosed between the curve y  x 2 and the line y  1 about y  1 is (in cubic units)
9 7 8
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
5 3 3
x2 y2
84. The volume of the solid obtained by rotating the ellipse   1 about the axis of x is [MNR 1995]
a2 b 2
4 2 4
(a) a2b (b)   b 2 (c) a b (d) ab 2
3 3
85. The part of the parabola between the parabola y 2  4 ax and the line x  c is revolved about x-axis. The volume of the resulting solid is
c 2
(a) 2ac 2 (b) ac 2 (c) (d) 4ac 2
4
86. The volume of the solid generated by revolving about the y- axis the figure bounded by the parabola y  x 2 and x  y 2 is
[UPSEAT 2002]
21 24 5
(a)  (b)  (c)  (d) None of these
5 5 24
87. The volume of the frustum of a cone of height 6 cm., and radii are 5 cms and 8 cms is
(a) 258 cc (b) 250 cc (c) 268 cc (d) 275 cc
88. The part of the circle x  y  4 between x  1 and x  2 is revolved about x-axis. The curved surface of the resulting solid is
2 2

(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8

Advance Level

89. The volume of a solid obtained by revolving about y-axis enclosed between the ellipse x 2  9 y 2  9 and the straight line x  3 y  3 in the
first quadrant is [MNR 1994]
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 9
90. The volume of the frustum of a right circular cone. The radii of whose ends are respectively 10 cms and 16 cms and thickness is 4 cms,
is
(a) 1232  (b) 332  (c) 1032  (d) 1132 
91. The line segment joining the points (1, m) and (2, 2m) is revolved round the y-axis to form a frustum of a cone of the volume of the frustum
is 14  then the value of m is equal to
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8
92. A frustum of sphere is made by cutting two parallel planes of any sphere. If radius of sphere is 5 cm and distance between the plane is 1cm,
then what will be the curved surface of frustum when the distance of first plane from the centre of sphere is 2 cm [UPSEAT 1999]
(a) 5cm 2 (b) 10cm 2 (c) 15cm 2 (d) 40cm 2
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Assignment (Basic and Advance Level)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
a c a d b b d c d b c b a b c a a c b a
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
c b d d a d b d b b b c b a a c d a a a
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
b a d b c b a b a a c a a d d b d c a b
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
d b d b b c a a d c a b c b c b a a c b
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92
a a d d a d a b a c c b