A string of lights has two blinking lights. One blinks every twelve minutes while the other blinks every forty four minutes. If they both blinked at 1pm, when is the next time they will blink again. (Find the LCM (Least Common Multiple))

They will both blink again at 3:12 pm.

Step-by-step explanation:

As indicated by the question, the way to solve is to find the Lowest (or Least) Common Multiple of both numbers.

As such:

Now knowing the LCM is 132, we convert those minutes into hours and minutes:

Add this to the original time:

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x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)