BITSAT 2020 Paper

Since the chord makes equal intercepts of length a on the coordinate axes. So, its equation can be written as x±y=±a.
This line meets the given circle at two distinct points.
So, length of the perpendicular from the centre (0,0) of the given circle must be less than the radius.
i.e. |±

a

√2

|<√8
⇒a2<16⇒|a|<4