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Series of tuning forks, each giving x beats with the next, the last an octave of the first

This type of question, asked 2 times: 19 Apr 2026 S1, 19 May 2026 S2. All 2 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    19 Apr 2026 S1

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    A set of 1414 tuning forks is arranged in a series of increasing frequencies. Each fork produces 'xx' beats per second with the preceding fork and the last fork is an octave of the first fork. If the seventh fork has the frequency of 114114 Hz, the value of xx is

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  2. Question 2

    19 May 2026 S2

    121
    A set of 88 tuning forks is arranged in ascending order of frequencies. Each fork produces 44 beats with the next one and frequency of last fork is octave of first. The frequency of 5th5^{\text{th}} fork is

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