LEVEL–I

1. Prove that the area enclosed between the parabolas y2 = 4ax and x2 = 4 by is 16 ab/3.

2. Prove that the area included between the parabola y2 = 4ax and the line y = mx is 8a2/3m3.

3. Find the area bounded on the right by the line x + y = 2, on the left by the parabola y = x2 and
above by the x-axis.

4. Find the area of the region bounded by the curves, y = x2 + 2 ; y = x ; x = 0 and x = 3.

5. Find the area bounded by the curve y = x2 + 1 and the tangents to it drawn from the origin.

6. Find the area bounded by the curve y2 = x and x = | y | .

7. Find the area of the region bounded by the parabola y = x2 and the rays given by y = |x|.

8. Find the area of the figure bounded by the parabola (y - 2) 2 = x - 1 the tangent to it at the
point with ordinate 3 and the x-axis.

9. Find the area of the circle 4x2 + 4y2 = 9, which is interior to the parabola y2 = 4x.

10. Find the area of the region enclosed between the two circles x2 + y2 = 1 and (x - 1)2 + y2 = 1.

11. Find the area of the circle x2 + y2 = 16, which is exterior to the parabola y2 = 6x.

x2 y2 x y
12. Find the area of the smaller region bounded by the ellipse   1 and the straight line   1.
a2 b2 a b
(a > 0, b > 0)

x2 y2
13. Find the area bounded by the ellipse   1 and the ordinates x = ae and x = 0, where
a2 b2
b2 = a2 (1 - e2).

14. Find the value of ‘c’ for which the area of the figure bounded by the curve, y = 8x2 - x5, the straight
lines x = 1 and x = c and the abscissa axis is equal to 16/3.

15. Find the area enclosed by the curves 3x2 + 5y = 32 and y = |x – 2|.
 PROBLEMS (OBJECTIVE)
(A) Fill in the blanks
1. Match the following
(i) Area bounded by –4y2 = x and x – 1 = –5y2 is __________.

(B) Multiple choice questions with one or more than one correct answer :

1. For which of the following values of m, is the area of the region bounded by the curve y = x – x2
and the line y = mx equals 9/2 ?
(A) - 4 (B) - 2
(C) 2 (D) 4

(C) Multiple choice questions with one correct answer :

1. The area bounded by the curves y = f(x), the x–axis and the ordinates x = 1 and x = b is
(b – 1)sin(3b + 4). Then f(x) is
(A) (x – 1) cos(3x + 4) (B) sin(3x + 4)
(C) sin(3x + 4) + 3(x – 1) cos (3x + 4) (D) none of these

2. The area bounded by the curves y = | x | - 1 and y = -| x | + 1 is

(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 2 2 (D) 4

3. The area bounded by the curves y  x , 2 y  3  x and x–axis in the 1 st quadrant is

(A) 9 (B) 27/4
(C) 36 (D) 18

4. The area bounded by the angle bisectors of the lines x2 – y2 + 2y = 1 and the line x + y = 3, is
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 6

5. The area enclosed between the curves y = ax2 and a = ay2 (a > 0) is 1 sq. unit, then the
value of a is
1 1
(A) (B)
3 2
1
(C) 1 (D)
3

6. The area bounded by the parabolas y = (x + 1)2 and y = (x – 1)2 and the line y = 1/4 is
(A) 4 sq. units (B) 1/6 sq. units
(C) 4/3 sq. units (D) 1/3 sq. units
14. In what ratio does the x-axis divide the area of the region bounded by the parabolas y = 4x - x2 and
y = x2 - x ?

15. Find the ratio in which the area bounded by the curves y2 = 12x and x2 = 12y is divided by the line
x = 3.

16. Find the area given by x  y  6, x 2  y 2  6y and y 2  8x .

17. 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.

18. Find the area of the region formed by x2 + y2 - 6x - 4y + 12  0, y  x and x  5/2.

19. Let An be the area bounded by the curve y = (tan x)n and the lines x = 0, y = 0 and x =  / 4 .Prove
that for n > 2, An + An - 2 = 1/(n - 1) and deduce that 1/(2n + 2) < A n < 1/(2n - 2).

20. Let f(x) = Maximum {x2, (1 - x)2, 2x(1 - x)}, where 0  x  1 . Determine the area of the region
bounded by the curves y = f(x), x - axis, x = 0 and x = 1.

21. Indicate the region bounded by the curves x2 = y, y = x + 2 and x-axis and obtain the area enclosed
by them.

22. Find all the possible values of b > 0, so that the area of the bounded region enclosed between the
x2
parabolas y = x – bx2 and y = is maximum.
b

1
23. Let O (0, 0), A (2, 0) and B(1, ) be the vertices of a triangle. Let R be the region consisting of all
3
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. 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).

25. Indicate the region bounded by the curves y = x log x and y = 2x - 2x2 and obtain the area enclosed
by them.
 9 15 15 17
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 2 4 4

2. The area between the hyperbola xy = c2, then x – axes and the ordinates at a and b with a > b is
a b
(A) c 2 log  (B) c 2 log  (C) c2 log (a b) (D) none of these
b a

3. The area bounded by parabola y2 = x, straight line y = 4 and y-axis is

16 64
(A) (B) (C) 7 2 (D) none of these
3 3

4. The area of the upper half of the circle whose equation is (x – 1)2 + y2 = 1 is given by
2 1 2
2 2

(A)  2x  x dx (B)  2x  x dx (C)  2x  x 2 dx (D)
0 0 1
4

5. Area bounded by parabola y2 = x and straight line 2y = x is

4 2 1
(A) (B) 1 (C) (D)
3 3 3

6. Area bounded by lines y = 2 + x, y = 2 – x and x = 2 is

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16

7. The area of the curve x2 + y2 = 2 ax is

1 2
(A)  a 2 (B) 2 a 2 (C) 4 a 2 (D) a
2

8. The area enclosed by the parabola y2 = 8x and the line y = 2x is

4 3 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 4 4 2

9. The area bounded by the curve y = sin x and x-axis from x = 0 to 2 is

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4

10. The ratio of the areas between the curves y = cos x and y = cos 2x and x-axis from

x = 0 to x  is
3
(A) 1 : 2 (B) 2 : 1 (C) 3 :1 (D) none of these
11. The area between x-axis and curve y = cos x when 0  x  2 is
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

12. The area common to the parabola y = 2x2 and y = x2 + 4 is

 91 30
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) 4
30 9

22. The area bounded by the curves y = | x | – 1 and y = – | x | + 1 is

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 2 2 (D) 4

23. The area bounded by the parabola y2 = 4 ax and x2 = 4ay is

8a 3 16a 2 32a 2 64a 2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 3 3 3

24. The area of the region [(x, y) : x 2  y 2  1  x  y] is

  2
(A) (B) (C) (D) none of these
5 4 3

25. The area bounded by the parabola x = 4 – y2 and the y-axis, in square units, is
3 32 33 16
(A) (B) (C) (D)
32 3 3 3


26. The area of the region bounded by the limits x  0, x  and f(x) = sin x, g(x) = cos x is
2

(A) 2 2  1  (B) 3  1 
(C) 2 3  1  (D) 2 2  1  
27. The area of the region bounded by the parabola y = x2 + 1 and the straight line x + y = 3 is
given by
45 25  9
(A) (B) (C) (D)
7 4 18 2

28. The smaller area enclosed by the circle x2 + y2 = 9 and the line x = 1 is

(A) 2 9 sec 1 3  8  (B) 9 sec 1 3  8
(C) 29 sec 1
3 8 (D) 9 sec 1 3  8

29. The area bounded by the curves y = sin x between the ordinates x = 0, x   and the x-axis is
(A) 2 sq. units (B) 4 sq. units (C) 3 sq. units (D) 1 sq. units

1
30. The arc in the first quadrant enclosed by the x-axis, the line y  x and circle x2 + y2 = 4,
3
is given by
3 2

(A)  x  
4  x 2 dx (B)  x 
0

4  x 2 dx
0

2 3 2
 x  x
(C)    4  x 2  dx (D)  dx   4  x 2 dx
0 3  0 3 3

SET–II
  3 1  3 1  3 1
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D) none of these
6 8 6 8 6 8

1
10. The area enclosed between the curves y = loge(x + e), x  log e   and the x-axis is
 y
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 4 (D) none of these

11. The area bounded by the parabola y2 = 4ax, latus rectum and x-axis is
4 2 2 2 a2
(A) 0 (B) a (C) a (D)
3 3 3

12. The area of the region (in square units) bounded by the curve x2 = 4y, line x = 2 and x-axis is
2 4 8
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D)
3 3 3

13. The area bounded by the x-axis and the curve y = 4x – x2 – 3 is

4 3 3
(A) (B) (C) 7 (D)
3 4 2

14. Area bounded by the curve y = 2x – x2 and the straight line y = – x is given by
9 43 35
(A) (B) (C) (D) none of these
2 6 6

15. The area of the region bounded by y = | x – 1| and y = 1 is

1
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) (D) none of these
2

16. The area between the curve y = | x | and x-axis is

1 1
(A) 1 (B) (C) 2 (D)
2 3

17. Area bounded by the curves y = x sin x and x-axis between x = 0 and x = 2 is
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) none of these

x 2 y2
18. AOB is the positive quadrant of the ellipse   1 where OA = a, OB = b. Then area
a 2 b2
between the arc AB and chord AB of the ellipse is
(A)  ab (B) (   2) ab
ab(   2) ab(   2)
(C) (D)
2 4

19. Area of the segment cut off from the parabola x2 = 8y by the line x – 2y + 8 = 0 is
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 48 (D) 36
 SET–III
A. Multiple choice Questions with one correct answer

1. If A is the area lying between the curve y= sinx and x-axis between x = 0 and x = . Area of the
2
region between the curves y = sin2x and x-axis in the same interval is given by
A
(A) (B) A (C) 2A (D) none of these
2

2. The area of the triangle formed by the positive x-axis and the normal and tangent to the circle
x2 + y2 = 4 at ( 1, 3 ) is

1
(A) 3 (B) (C) 2 3 (D) none of these
3

3. The area of the region bounded by the two parabolas y = x2 and y2 = x is

1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 3 4 5

4. The area bounded by y = |x + 3|, x-axis and the two ordinates x = –6 and x = 0
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12


5. The area bounded by the curve y = secx, the x-axis and the lines x = 0 and x = is
4
1
(A) 2 (B)
2
ln 2 (C) ln  2 1  (D) ln  2 1 
B. Multiple choice Questions with one or more than one correct answer

6. 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
(A) a = 3 (B) a = –3 (C) b = 1 (D) b = –1

7. The area enclosed between the curve y2 = x and x2 = y is equal to

1
2
(A) 2 ( x  x ) dx (B) 1/3
0

(C) area of the region {(x, y) : x2 y | x | } (D) none of these

8. Area laying between the curves y = tan x, y = cot x and x-axis, x [0, /2] is
(c) The area of a circle centred at (1, 2) and
104a 2
passing through (4, 6) is (R)
3
(d) The area of the bounded by y = cos x, y = 0,
| x | = 1 is given by (S) 25
17. Column I Column II
(a) The area bounded by the curves y = 2 cos x and the
(3  8)
x-axis from x = 0 to x = 2 is (P)
4
(b) The area in the first quadrant between x2 + y2 = 2
and y = sin x is (Q) 1
(c) The measurement of the area bounded by the
coordinate axes and the curve y = logex is (R) 2a
(d) The area of the loop between the curve y = a sin x
and x-axis is (S) 8

18. Column I Column II

(a) The area between the parabolas y2 = 4ax and
x2 = 8ay is (P) 27
(b) Area bounded by the curve y = (x – 1) (x – 2) (x – 3) and
x-axis lying between the ordinates x = 0 and x = 3 is equal to (Q) 2
(c) The area cut off the parabola 4y = 3x2 by the straight line
32 2
2y = 3x + 12 in sq. units is (R) a
3
11
(d) The area of the region satisfying x  y   is (S)
4

WI Read the following passage :

If f is smooth on [a, b], the length of the curve y = f(x) from a to b is
b 2 b
 dy 
L 1    dx   1  (f ( x )) 2 dy ...........(i)
a  dx  a

At point on a curve where dy/dx fails to exist, dx/dy may exist and we may be able to find the curve
‘s length by expressing x as a function of y and applying the following analogue of Eq.(i) Formula for
the length of a smooth curve x  g ( y), c  y  d

b 2 d
 dx 
L 1    dy   1  (g(y)) 2 dy ...........(ii)
c  dy  c
 8 8
(C)
3

3 32 2  (D)
3

3 2 2 3 
24. The line segment x = 1 – y, 0  y  1, is revolved about the y–axis to generate the cone then its lateral
surface area is

(A)  3 (B) (C)  (D)  2
2
25. The area of the surface generated by revolving
the curve x  2 4  y, 0  y  15 / 4
about y–axis is
5 35 35 5
(A) (B)
3 3
35 3 3 35
(C) (D)
5 5
26. The surface area of a sphere of radius ‘a’ by using equation (i) to find the area of the surface
generated by revolving the curve y  a 2  x 2 ,  a  x  a about x–axis is
4a 2 3a 2
(A) a 2 (B) 4a 2 (C) (D)
3 4

W III Read the following passage :

The volume of the solid generated by revolving about the x–axis the region between the x–axis and
the graph of the continuous function y  R ( x ), a  x  b , is
b b
V    [radius ] dx   [R ( x )]2dx ......(i)
2

a a

The volume of the solid generated by revolving about the y–axis the region between they–axis and the
graph of the continuous function
x  R(y), c  y  d , is
d d
V    (radius ) 2 dx   [R ( y)]2dy .......(ii)
c c

27. The region between the curve y  x , 0  x  4 , and the x–axis is revolved about the x–axis to
generate a solid. Then its volume is
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 8 (D) 5

28. The volume of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by y  x and the lines
y = 1, x = 4 about the line y = 1 is
 L
M 2 3 1O
 . arc sin P 2 2 F
G 4 IJ
6.
N3 2
a sq. units
3Q H
7. a 3 3 
3 K

9. K = 2, A = 32/3 10.
3

a2    1
11.(i)   1 (ii) 4 14.(i) m = 1 (ii) m = – , area = 0
2 2  2

3  2
15.
2

PROBLEMS (OBJECTIVE)

4
(A) 1. (B) 1. B, D
3

(C) 1. C 2. B 3. D 5. A 6. D

PROBLEMS (SUBJECTIVE)
9
1. sq.units 3. a = 2 2 4. n 3 / 2 sq.units
8
5  1 2 1  3 5
5.  sin  sin 1  sq. units 6. sq. units
2 5 5 2 3

25 1 4  1 10
7. 2  sin sq. units 8. n 2   sq. units 9. sq. units
2 5 4 2 3
e2  5 1 1 3
10.
4e
sq. units 11.   4  2
2

n 2 2

 n 2 sq. units

2 1
12.   sq. units 13. 14. 4 : 121 15. 49 : 15
3 2

1
16. ( 9  / 4)  (1 / 6) 17.
3
d
16 2  20 i 18.

6

3 1
8
20. 17/27 sq. units