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This is a solar panel (believe it). Your company proposes to set it up in some remote desert. You have a plan:

You want to have the panel balanced on the tip of a thin vertical tower (!!!). Give the equation of the tower wrt. the given coordinate axes.

(I kid you not. I'm not making this stuff up!)

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  2. hi sambhav...very clever...par har question orally thode na hoga :P

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  3. if i did not misunderstand question/not make calculation mistake, is the answer (2657/447, 2459/447) ?

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  5. sorry bhaiya for posting the solution but, main kafi emotional ho gaya tha after seeing so many different answers.
    waise bhaiya kya answer correct tha.

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  6. Dunno the answer myself...
    You all know the solution by now:

    1) Triangulate the polygon (divide it into disjoint triangles).
    2) Use the centroid of each triangle and its area (use determinant form) to find the COM of the polygon.

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  7. Yeah i guess everyone did that to get different different answers !

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