The box contains 10 tablets of medicine A and 15 tablets of medicine B. N tablets are taken from the box at random. What is the least possible N that ensures that at least two tablets of each kind are among the extracted?
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9. Two cities A and B are 30 km apart. From both of these cities, simultaneously, two hikers start their journeys towards each other.
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Pass a plane through a cube so that the section formed will be a regular hexagon. If the edge of the cube is 2 units, find the area of this section.
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Eight books are to be arranged on a bookshelf. Three of the books are by the same author. In how many ways can the book be arranged on the bookshelf if the books by the same author are to stay together?
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The Department of Health encourages elderly people to have a flu vaccination each year.
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Five men and three women are arranged randomly in a row. What is the probability that there are not two women standing together anywhere in the row?
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There are four red, three green and five blue discs in a bag. Find the probability that two discs of the same color are drawn.
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A disease is known to affect 1 in 10,000 people. It can be fatal, but it is treatable if it is detected early.
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Water evaporates at the rate of two liters per hour per one square meter of surface. How long will it take to evaporate 30 liters of water from a cylindrical swimming pool full of water with 6 m in diameter and 2 m depth?
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A strip of 640 m2 is sold from a triangular field whose sides are 96 m, 72 m, and 80 m. The strip is of uniform width h and has one of its sides parallel to the longest side of the field. Find the width of the strip.
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Stations A and B are placed 1000 m apart on a straight road running East and West. From A, the bearing of the tower C is 32° West of North and from B the bearing of C is 26° North of East. Find the shortest distance of the tower from the road.
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A man drives from station A to station B 60 km away at an average speed of 30 kph and return to A at an average speed of 20 kph. What was the average speed of the man in the whole journey?
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At what time between 7 and 8 o’clock will the hands of the clock be directly opposite each other?
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Mary was 4 times as old as Ann 4 years ago and if Mary will be twice as old as Ann 4 years hence, how old is Ann?
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A circle of radius 1 unit is shown. AD is the diameter of the circle and O is the center. Find the length of arc BC.  
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In how many ways can 4 couples be seated at a round table with the men and women alternating?
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In the figure, $AB = BC$. The value of $\theta$ is:
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A sector of a circle with radius 10 cm has a central angle of 120°. Find the arc length of the sector.
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Convert $5\pi / 6$ into degree measure.
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Find the area of a sector of a circle of radius 6 cm and a central angle of 60°.
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When the population growth of a certain city was first studied, the population was 22,000.
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If an arc length is 12 m subtends a central angle $\phi$ in a circle of radius 3, find the measure of $\phi$ in terms of radians.
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A and B can finish the job in 8 days and the working speed of A is twice that of B. How many days would it take A to finish the job alone?
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A group of dancers consists of x boys and x girls. If two of the boys are replaced by two girls, then 48% of the group members will be boys. Find the original value of the boys.
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Find $y'$ if $x = 2 \arccos (2t)$ and $y = 4 \arcsin (2t).
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A contractor bought a concrete mixer at P120,000.00 if paid in cash.
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There are five harmonic means between 4/3 and 4/11. What is the fourth term?
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How far apart are the foci of the curve $9x^2 + 25y^2 - 18x + 100y - 116 = 0$.
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The map shows 5 cm representing 450 km. What actual distance is represented by a map distance of 2.8 cm?
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A company invests P10,000 today to be repaid in five years in one lump sum at 12% compounded annually. If the rate of inflation is 3% compounded annually, how much profit in present day pesos is realized over five years?
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A dog is tied with a chord 3 m long to the edge of a circular tank 8 m in diameter. The point where the cord is attached to the tank is at the same elevation as the dog’s collar. Determine the total area about which the dog can move, in square meter...
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Line AB has point A(4, 5) and point B(-3, -2). Find point C along line AB if distance BC is three times the distance AC.
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At 6:00 A.M., a fighter plane took off at 410 kph from an aircraft carrier, maintaining the direction of N 50° E.
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Find the volume of the tetrahedron bounded by the coordinate planes and the plane $8x + 12y + 4z - 48 = 0$.
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To determine the area of a triangular lot ABC, a surveyor set-up a transit at point P inside the lot and recorded the following bearing and distances of each corners of the lot from P.
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In how many days will the original gang of pipe layers, under the supervision of foreman B, finish the original pipe-laying job?
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Find the radius of curvature of the curve $y = x^3 - 2x^2 + 5x - 3$ at $x = 5$.
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A 3-degree simple curve has an external distance of 23 m. What is the length of the long chord?
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The area under the curve $y = x^2 between the values $x = 1$ and $x = 7$ is closest to:
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Company A has a fixed expense of P1.5M monthly and each unit is produced at P20.
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A vertical summit curve has tangent grades of +2.6% and -1.5%. Using h1 = 1.37 m and h2 = 0.1 m, calculate the minimum length of curve if the required sight distance is 140 m.
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A circle of radius 15 cm is revolved about a line tangent to it. What is the surface area of the resulting by the solid?
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A car travels with an initial velocity of 10 m/s or 36 km/hr. If it is decelerating at a rate of 3 m/sec-sec, how far, in meters, does it travel before stopping?
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Find the area enclosed by the curve $r^2 = 64 \cos 2\theta$.
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MSTE-00 Welcome Message and General Instructions
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I need guidance in designing a beam supporting specified ultimate moment of 1100 kN.m (doubly reinforced beam)
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One number is 25 greater than a second number. If the lesser number is subtracted from 3 times the greater number, the difference is 195. Find the product of two numbers.
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Find two consecutive positive even integers such that the square of the second, decreased by twice the first is 124. Find the smaller number.
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The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 11. When the digits are reversed, the new number exceeds the original number by 9. From the original number, calculate the product of tens digit to the square of the units digit.
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Three times Dick's age plus Tom's age equals twice Harry's age. Double the cube of Harry's age is equal to three times the cube of Dick's age added to the cube of Tom's age. Their respective ages are relatively prime to each other. How old is Harry?
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