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A person standing on one side of a road blows a whistle which has a frequency of `600 Hz`. A cyclist passes at 16 kilometre per hour. What does the frequency of the whistle appear to be to the cyclist before and after passing ?
(Velocity of sound in air `= 350 ms^(-1)`)

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