A police car moving at 22m/s chases a motorcyclist. The police man sounds his horn at 176 Hz, while both of them move towards a stationary siren of frequency 165 Hz. Calculate the speed of the motorcycle. If it is given that the motorcyclist does not observe any beats:
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The motorcyclist observes no beats. So the apparent frequency observed by him from the two sources must be equal.
Solving this equation, we get 
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