143k views
5 votes
John and Jeremy are the local names for two lighthouses that guard a particularly dangerous part of the coast. John blinks every 6 seconds and Jeremy blinks every 4 seconds. They blink together at midnight. How many seconds will pass before they blink together again?

John and Jeremy are the local names for two lighthouses that guard a particularly-example-1
User Gimpe
by
7.3k points

1 Answer

6 votes
John blinks every 6 seconds, Jeremy every 4 seconds, so they both will blink next on a common factor of 6 and 4, or an LCD, that'd be 12 seconds later, so at 00:00:12.
User Bugster
by
7.6k points