The point P (a, b) undergoes the following three transformations successively :

(a) reflection about the line y = x.

(b) translation through 2 units along the positive direction of x-axis.

(c) rotation through angle $${\pi \over 4}$$ about the origin in the anti-clockwise direction.

If the co-ordinates of the final position of the point P are $$\left( { - {1 \over {\sqrt 2 }},{7 \over {\sqrt 2 }}} \right)$$, then the value of 2a + b is equal to :

A possible value of 'x', for which the ninth term in the expansion of $${\left\{ {{3^{{{\log }_3}\sqrt {{{25}^{x - 1}} + 7} }} + {3^{\left( { - {1 \over 8}} \right){{\log }_3}({5^{x - 1}} + 1)}}} \right\}^{10}}$$ in the increasing powers of $${3^{\left( { - {1 \over 8}} \right){{\log }_3}({5^{x - 1}} + 1)}}$$ is equal to 180, is :

For real numbers $$\alpha$$ and $$\beta$$ $$\ne$$ 0, if the point of intersection of the straight lines

$${{x - \alpha } \over 1} = {{y - 1} \over 2} = {{z - 1} \over 3}$$ and $${{x - 4} \over \beta } = {{y - 6} \over 3} = {{z - 7} \over 3}$$, lies on the plane x + 2y $$-$$ z = 8, then $$\alpha$$ $$-$$ $$\beta$$ is equal to :

Let f : R $$\to$$ R be defined as $$f(x + y) + f(x - y) = 2f(x)f(y),f\left( {{1 \over 2}} \right) = - 1$$. Then, the value of $$\sum\limits_{k = 1}^{20} {{1 \over {\sin (k)\sin (k + f(k))}}} $$ is equal to :