Question

At an animal rehabilitation center, the baby rabbits need to be fed every 8 hours and the baby squirrels need to be fed every 6 hours. If the rabbits and squirrels are both fed at 9:30 a.m. wen will they be fed again at the same time?

Answer 1

You need to find the LCM of 6 and 8.

Prime factorization :

6 = 2 × 3

8 = 2 × 2 × 2

LCM(6, 8)

= 2 × 2 × 2 × 3

= 24

The animals will be fed 24 hours after 9:30 am which is the next day, at the same time.

Answer 2

U just need to find the LCM so I believe it would be 24 hours. So it could be just 9:30 again?
Or just count up like 1,2,3... until u hit a number that is divisible of 8 and 6 then add that to 9:30