The afternoon crew at Yummy Yummy Subbys can make a submarine sandwich once every 45 seconds. The evening crew can only make a submarine sandwich once every 50 seconds. If both crews work together, how many seconds will it take them to make 38 submarine sandwiches?

The least common multiple that is divisible by both a and b is the smallest positive integer, lowest common multiple, or smallest common multiple of two numbers a and b, generally indicated by LCM.

The time taken by the afternoon crew to make a sandwich is 45 seconds. The time taken by the evening crew to make a sandwich is 50 seconds. Taking the LCM of the timing of the two crew, to know at what time they both will finish making a sandwich together.

LCM of 45 and 50 is 450.

Therefore, the number of sandwiches made by the afternoon crew in 450 seconds is 10, while the number of sandwiches that will be made by the evening crew is 9. Thus, in a time period of 450 seconds, both crews together will make 19 sandwiches.

Now, since it takes 450 seconds to make 19 sandwiches the time it will take to make double the number of sandwiches therefore, 38 sandwiches will also be double.

Hence, the number of seconds it will take both the crew together to make 38 sandwiches is 900.

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