CHAPTER - 8

AREAS OF BOUNDED REGIONS

1. Sketch the region bounded by y  2 x  x 2 and x - axis and find its area.

2. Find the area of the region included between the parabolas y 2  4ax and x 2  4ay, where a  0 .

3. Find the smaller area bounded by the curves x 2  y 2  8 and y  x .

4. Find the area of the region  x , y  : x 2

 y  x .

5. Find the area of the region   x , y : x 2

 y  x .

6. Find the area bounded by the curves y 2  4ax and the lines y  2a and y  axis .

7. Find the area of the region   x , y : x 2

 y2  1  x  y .
8. Find the area bounded by the curves y  x , y  x 3 .

9. Using integration, find area of  ABC whose vertices have the coordinates:

(i) A  2, 5 , B  4, 7  and C  6, 2  (ii) A  3, 0  , B  4,5  and C  5,1

(iii)  1,1 ,  0,5  ,  3, 2  (iv)  4,1 ,  6, 6  , 8, 4 

10. Find the area of the region bounded by the following curves after making a rough sketch:

y 1  x 1 , x   3, x  3, y  0

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11. Sketch the graph of y  x  1 . Evaluate  x  1 dx . What does this value represent on the graph?
3

12. Sketch the region common to the circle x 2  y 2  16 and the parabola x 2  6 y . Also, find the area of

the region using integration.

13. Find the area bounded by the lines :

(i) y  4 x  5, y  5  x , 4 y  x  5 (ii) x  2 y  2, y  x  1, 2 x  y  7

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 x  2  2 when x  2
14. Sketch the graph of f ( x)   2 . Evaluate  f ( x) dx . What does this value
 x 2 when x  2 0

represent on the graph?

x2 y 2 x y
15. Find the area of the smaller region bounded by the ellipse  1 and the line   1 .
16 9 4 3

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16. Find the area of the region enclosed between the circles x 2  y 2  16 and  x  4   y 2  16 .

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17. Find the area of the region enclosed between the circles x 2  y 2  4 and  x  2   y 2  4

18. Using integration, find the area of the region:  x , y  : 25 x 2

 9 y 2  225 and 5 x  3 y  15

19. Find the area of the region  x , y  : y 2

 6 ax and x 2  y 2  16a 2 

20. Using integration, find the area of the region enclosed by the curves y 2  4 x and y  x .

21. Find the area of the region bounded by the circle x 2  y 2  a 2 and a line x  y  a .

22. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y 2  2 x and x 2  y 2  4 x .

23. Find the area enclosed by the parabola y 2  x and the line y  x  2 .

24. Find the area of the region bounded by the circle x 2  y 2  2 which is interior to the parabola y 2  x .

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25. Find the area of the region enclosed between the circles x 2  y 2  a2 and  x  a   y 2  a 2 .

26. Find the area of the region bounded by the parabola y 2  2 x and the straight line x  y  4 .

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27. Find the area of the region bounded by R   x , y  : 6 x  y 2  16  x 2 
28. Find the area bounded by the parabolas y 2   4 x and x 2  2 y .

29. Draw the rough sketch of y 2  x  1 and y 2   x  1 and determine the area enclosed by them.

30. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y  1  x 2 , line y  x and the positive x-axis.

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31. Using integration, find the area of the region:  x , y : x 1  y  5  x2 
32. Using integration, find the area of a triangle formed by positive x-axis, and the normal and the


tangent to the circle x 2  y 2  4 at 1, 3 . 
a2
33. If the area bounded by the parabola y 2 16ax and the line y  4mx is sq. units, then using
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integration, find the value of m .

34. Using integration, find the area bounded by the curves y  x  1 and y  3  x .

35. Using integration, find the area of the region bounded by the line x  y  2  0 , the curve x  y and

y-axis.

36. Find the area bounded by the curves y 2  2 y  x and 2 y  3x .

37. Find the area of region  x , y  : x 2

 y 2  1, 2 x  2 y  1, x  0, y  0 using integration.

x2 y 2 x2 y2
38. Find the area bounded by the curves   1 and  1 .
9 4 4 9

39. Find the area bounded by the parabola y 2  4 x and the line y  2 x  4 .
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40. Show that the area between the curves y  sin 2 x and y  sin x and x  axis from x  0 to x  are in
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the ratio 2 : 3.
41. Using integration, find the area bounded by the tangent to the curve 4 y  x 2 at the point  2,1 and

the lines whose equations are x  2 y and x  3 y  3 .

42. Using integration, find the area enclosed by the curves y  x 1 and y 1  x 1

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43. Draw a rough sketch of the region enclosed between the circles x2  y 2  4 and  x  2  y 2 1.

Using integration, find the area of the enclosed region.

44. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y  x 3 , y  x  6 and x  0 .

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45. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y   x 2 and line x  y  2  0 .

46. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y  x , x  2 y  3 in the first quadrant and x-axis.

47. Using integration, find the area of the triangle formed by negative x-axis and tangent and normal of


the circle x 2  y 2  9 at 1, 2 2 . 
48. Using integration, find the area of the region bounded by the curves

y  4  x 2 , x 2  y 2  4 x and x  axis. .

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

AREAS OF BOUNDED REGIONS

Q1. Area under the curve y  a 2  x 2 included between the lines x  0 and x  a is:

 a2  a2 a a
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 4 2 4

Q2. The area bounded by y  x 2 the x-axis and the line x  21 3 is divided into two equal areas by the line

x  k . The value of k is:

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 1 2 (d) none of these

Q3. The area bounded by curve y  sin 2 x , x-axis and the lines x   4 and 3 4 is:

(a) 1 sq. units (b) 2 sq. units (d) 4 sq. units (d) 3 2 sq. units

Q4. The area bounded by the curve y  x 2  4 and the lines y  0 and y  5 is:

(a) 38 3 (b) 76 3 (c) 19 3 (d) 57 3

Q5. The area bounded by the region  x , y : x 2

 y 2  1  x  y is:

 1  1  1  1
(a)  (b)  (c)  (d) 
4 2 4 2 2 4 2 4

Q6. Area of region in first quadrant enclosed by the x-axis, the line y  x and the circle x 2  y 2  32 is:

(a) 16 sq.units (b) 4 sq.units (c) 32 sq.units (d) 124 sq.units

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Q7. The area of  x , y : x 2

 y  x is given by (in sq. units):

(a) 1 6 (b) 1 3 (c) 2 3 (d) none of these

x2 y 2 x y
Q8. The area between 2  2  1 and the line   1 is:
a b a b

 ab 1  ab ab  ab ab
(a) (b) ab (c)  (d) 
2 2 4 2 4 2

Q9. The area of the region bounded by the curve x 2  4 y and the line x  4 y  2  0 is:

(a) 3 8 (b) 5 8 (c) 7 8 (d) 9 8

Q10. The area bounded by y-axis, y  cos x and y  sin x , 0  x   2 is:

(a) 2  
2 1 sq.units (b)  
2 1 sq.units (c)  
2  1 sq.units (d) 2 sq.units

Q11. The area bounded by the parabola y 2  4ax and x 2  4ay is:

8a2 16a 2 32a 2 64a 2

(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3 3

Q12. The ratio of areas between the curves y  cos x and y  cos 2 x and x-axis from x  0 to x   3 is:

(a) 1:2 (b) 2:1 (c) 3 :1 (d) none of these

Q13. The area bounded by the parabola y 2  8 x , the x-axis and the latus rectum is:

(a) 16 3 (b) 23 3 (c) 32 3 (d) 16 2 3

Q14. The area bounded by the curve y  2 x  x 2 and the line y   x is:

(a) 7 2sq.units (b) 7 sq.units (c) 9 2sq.units (d) 9 sq.units

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Q15. The area of the region between the circles x 2  y 2  4 and  x  2   y 2  4 is:

8 8 8 8
(a) 2 3 (b) 2 3 (c)  3 (d)  3
3 3 3 3

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Q16. The area of a region bounded by the lines 3 x  y  3  0, 2 x  y 12  0 and x  2 y  1  0 is:

(a) 8 sq. units (b) 9 sq. units (c) 10 sq. units (d) 11 sq. units

Q17. The area of the region  x , y  :0  y  x 2

 1 , 0  y  x  1 , 0  x  2 is:

(a) 20 3sq.units (b) 23 6sq.units (c) 23 3sq.units (d) none of these

Q18. Smaller area enclosed by the circle x 2  y 2  16 exterior to the parabola y 2  6 x is:

4 4 4 4
(a)
3
4  3  (b)
3

4  3  (c)
3

8  3  (d)
3
4  3 

ANSWERS

AREAS OF BOUNDED REGIONS

4 16 2 1 1
1. sq. units 2. a sq. units 3. 2 sq. units 4. sq. units 5. sq. units
3 3 6 3

2 2  1 1 9
6. a sq. units 7.    sq. units 8. sq. units 9 (i). 7 sq. units (ii) sq. units
3  4 2 2 2

15
(iii) sq units (iv) 7 sq units 10. 16 11. 4
2

 4 3 16  15
12.    sq. units 13 (i). sq. units (ii) 6 sq. units
 3 3  2

62
14. sq. units , This value represents the area of the region bounded by the given curve and x -axis
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 4 
between x  0 to 4 . 15. 3    2  sq. units 16. 8   3  sq. units
 3 

5 15 7 1 15    4a 2
17.
2

2
 4 sin 1    sin 1  
8 4
18.   1
22 
19.
3
 
3  4 sq. units

8 a2     8 1
20. sq. units 21.   1 sq.units 22. 2     sq.units 23. 4 sq.units
3 2 2   3 2

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  1 a2
24.    sq.units
 2 3
25.
6
 
4  3 3 sq.units 26. 18 sq. units

 32 4 3  8 8 
27.    sq.units 28. sq.units 29. sq. units 30. sq. units
 3 3  3 3 8

5  1 2 1  1 10
31.  sin  sin 1  32. 2 3 sq.units 33. m  2 34. 4 sq.units 35. sq. units
2 5 5 2 3

32  1  2 
36. sq. units 37.  sq.units 38. 24 sin 1   sq. units 39. 9 sq. units
81 4 8  13 

1  5 15 7  1 
41. 1sq.units 42. sq.units 43.    4sin 1    sin 1   sq. units
2  2 2 8  4 

9
44. 10 sq. units 45. sq.units 46. 9 sq. units 47. 9 2 sq. units
2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. b 2. a 3. a 4. b 5. a 6. b 7. b 8. c 9. d 10. b 11. b 12. b 13. c 14. c

15. a 16. d 17. b 18. c

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