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A person standing on a road sends a sound signal to the driver of a car going away from him at a speed of 72 km/h. The signal travelling at 330 m/s in air and having a frequency of 1600 Hz gets reflected from the body of the car and returns. Find the frequency of the reflected signal as heard by the person.

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