Let z be a complex number such that the imaginary part of z is non-zero and $$a\, = \,{z^2} + \,z\, + 1$$ is real. Then a cannot take the value

Let $$\theta ,\,\varphi \, \in \,\left[ {0,2\pi } \right]$$ be such that
$$2\cos \theta \left( {1 - \sin \,\varphi } \right) = {\sin ^2}\theta \,\,\left( {\tan {\theta \over 2} + \cot {\theta \over 2}} \right)\cos \varphi - 1,\,\tan \left( {2\pi - \theta } \right) > 0$$ and $$ - 1 < \sin \theta \, < - {{\sqrt 3 } \over 2},$$

then $$\varphi $$ cannot satisfy

The total number of ways in which 5 balls of different colours can be distributed among 3 persons so that each person gets at least one ball is

The locus of the mid-point of the chord of contact of tangents drawn from points lying on the straight line 4x - 5y = 20 to the circle $${x^2}\, + \,{y^2} = 9$$ is