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Suppose the available main memory is M blocks, and block size is B bytes. Suppose using the two phase, multiway, merge-sort (TPMMS) method, we sort relation R that is stored in N disk blocks such that phase 2 completes in 1 step. If R is increased to 2N blocks and we still want phase 2 to complete in 1 step, which answer best estimates M' (the required number of main memory blocks)?