MAA MinuteMath: July 23, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009

July 23, 2009

Let S be the set of the 2005 smallest positive multiples of 4, and let T be the set of the 2005 smallest positive multiples of 6. How many elements are common to S and T?

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