Find LCM of ( 6,8,12)

gmatmachoman wrote:Find LCM of ( 6,8,12)

Not really...

We are in fact given the frequencies and not the time-periods of the 3 strings. Hence, we first need to take reciprocals of 6, 8 and 12 to get the time-periods of the 3 strings as 1/6, 1/8, and 1/12 in seconds. Now comes the time to take the LCM of 1/6, 1/8, and 1/12 and answer it in seconds.

LCM of 1/6, 1/8, and 1/12 = LCM of 1, 1, 1/HCF of 6, 8, 12 = [spoiler]½[/spoiler] a second is the shortest time interval before all 3 vibrate together again.

let's do it in another way :
1/6 x a = t
1/8 x b = t
1/12 x c = t
when t is the time we will get the first string together .
we get :
b = 4/3 x a
c = 2 x a
the first integer a we give us an integer b is : a = 3
so we get :
t = 1/6 x 3 => t= 0.5 seconde