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In a right-angled triangle $\triangle A B C$, the altitude $A B$ is $5 \mathrm{~cm}$, and the base $B C$ is $12 \mathrm{~cm}$. $P$ and $Q$ are two points on $B C$ such that the areas of $\triangle \mathrm{ABP}, \triangle \mathrm{ABQ}$ and $\triangle \mathrm{ABC}$ are in arithmetic progression. If the area of $\triangle \mathrm{ABC}$ is $1.5$ times the area of $\triangle \mathrm{ABP}$, the length of PQ in cm , is

A triangle $ABC$ has area $32$ sq units and its side $BC$ , of length $8$ units, lies on the line $\mathrm{x}=4$. Then the shortest possible distance between $A$ and the point $(0,0)$ is

Let $P$ be an interior point of a right-angled isosceles triangle $ABC$ with hypotenuse $AB$ . If the perpendicular distance of P from each of $A B, B C$, and $C A$ is $4(\sqrt{2}-1) \mathrm{cm}$, then the area, in sq cm, of the triangle $A B C$ is