The ends X and Y of an inextensible strings 27m
long are fixed at two points on the same
horizontal line which are 20 m apart.
A particle of mass 7.5 kg is suspended
from a point P on the string 12 m from X.
(a) Illustrate this information in a diagram.
(b) calculate, correct to two decimal
places, <YXP and <XYP.
(c) Find, correct to the nearest hundredth,
the magnitudes of the tensions in the
string. [take g=10 ms^(−2) ]
When the terms of a Geometric Progression (G.P.)
with r=2 is added to the corresponding
terms of an arithmetic progression (A.P.),
a new sequence is formed. If the first terms
of the GP and AP are the same and the first
three termsof the new sequence are
3, 7 and 11 respectively, find the nth term
of the new sequence