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Distance between parallel lines

JEE Main asked Distance between parallel lines 4 times in 4 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. It belongs to Straight Line Distance, in Straight Lines (Maths). The longest wait between two years asking it was 3 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
4
in 4 shifts
Years
4 of 8
First asked
2020
last in 2025
Pattern
Comes in cycles
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Maths questions.

00.10.20’170.08’200.03’210’220’230.05’240.13’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 1 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 1 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.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20251 of 8
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20211 of 24
  • 20201 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: multi-step.

  • Line cutting two parallel lines length ratio
  • Line parallel to triangle side at given distance

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 4Hard 0

1 of the 4 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 4 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 3 Apr 2025, Shift 1 · Q13A line passes through the origin and makes equal angles with the positive coordinate axes. It intersects the lines…MediumSingle correct
  2. 4 Apr 2024, Shift 1 · Q16The vertices of a triangle are A(−1,3)(-1, 3), B(−2,2)(-2, 2) and C(3,−1)(3, -1). A new triangle is formed by shifting the sides of the triangle by…MediumSingle correct
  3. 3 Aug 2021, Shift 1 · Q72The sum of the values of 'a' for which circles of radius 53\frac{\sqrt{5}}{3}, touch the straight lines, x−2y−a=0x - 2y - a = 0 and…MediumSingle correct
  4. 5 Sep 2020, Shift 1 · Q74If the line, 2x−y+3=02x-y+3=0 is at a distance 15\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}} and 25\frac{2}{\sqrt{5}} from the lines 4x−2y+α=04x-2y+\alpha=0 and…MediumNumerical value

Shifts: 5 Sep 2020, Shift 1, 3 Aug 2021, Shift 1, 4 Apr 2024, Shift 1, 3 Apr 2025, Shift 1.

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