Let $X$ be the set consisting of the first $2018$ terms of the arithmetic progression $1,6,11$,

. . . .and $Y$ be set consisting of the first $2018$ terms of the arithmetic progression $9, 16, 23$,. . . . . Then, the number of elements in the set $X \cup Y$ is. . . . 

The common difference of the $A.P.$ $b_{1}, b_{2}, \ldots,$ $b_{ m }$ is $2$ more than the common difference of $A.P.$ $a _{1}, a _{2}, \ldots, a _{ n } .$ If $a _{40}=-159, a _{100}=-399$ and $b _{100}= a _{70},$ then $b _{1}$ is equal to

Shamshad Ali buys a scooter for $Rs$ $22000 .$ He pays $Rs$ $4000$ cash and agrees to pay the balance in annual instalment of $Rs$ $1000$ plus $10 \%$ interest on the unpaid amount. How much will the scooter cost him?

For $p, q \in R$, consider the real valued function $f ( x )=( x – p )^{2}- q , x \in R$ and $q >0$. Let $a _{1}, a _{2}, a _{3}$ and $a _{4}$ be in an arithmetic progression with mean $P$ and positive common difference. If $\left| f \left( a _{ i }\right)\right|=500$ for all $i=1,2,3,4$, then the absolute difference between the roots of $f ( x )=0$ is.

Find the $9^{\text {th }}$ term in the following sequence whose $n^{\text {th }}$ term is $a_{n}=(-1)^{n-1} n^{3}$