Security
The safe's security code is set with three dials. The first dial has five different letters, the second dial has the numbers 0 to 4, and the third dial has the numbers 5 to 9. One code can be set in approximately 1 second. How should the alarm be timed so that it sounds one-fifth of the time it takes to try all possible codes?
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