JEE Main · Maths · Straight Lines
Altitude Length of a Triangle
JEE Main asked Altitude Length of a Triangle 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2022 and 2024. It belongs to Straight Line Distance, in Straight Lines (Maths). The longest wait between two years asking it was 2 years.
Updated 2026-10-24
- Times asked
- 2
- in 2 shifts
- Years
- 2 of 8
- First asked
- 2022
- last in 2024
- Pattern
- Occasional
- across the analysed shifts
Questions on this idea a shift, by year
2017–2026. Asked in 2022 and 2024. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Maths questions.
Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.
Shift by shift
Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.
How JEE Main framed it
Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: multi-step.
- Isosceles right triangle with vertex at origin
- Area of equilateral triangle from altitude to line
Difficulty
Every question was multiple choice.
Every question
All 2 questions
From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.
- 5 Apr 2024, Shift 1 · Q14Let two straight lines drawn from the origin O intersect the line at the points P and Q such that is an…MediumSingle correct
- 26 Jun 2022, Shift 1 · Q11Let R be the point and let P and Q be two points on the line such that PQR is an equilateral triangle. Then the area…MediumSingle correct
Shifts: 26 Jun 2022, Shift 1, 5 Apr 2024, Shift 1.
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- Angle Bisector Locus via Distances3× · 2024
- Chord Length via Perpendicular Distance2× · 2026
- Reflection of a Line in a Line2× · 2026
- Square Area from Vertex and Diagonal2× · 2025
- Distance Measured Parallel to a Line2× · 2024
- Locus of Points at a Fixed Distance2× · 2024
- Origin Distance to Intercept Form2× · 2024