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Inventory Audit Scheduling with Prime Factors

An operations coordinator is scheduling inventory audits for two recurring shipments: Shipment A arrives every 12 days, and Shipment B arrives every 18 days. To determine the next day both shipments will arrive on the same date, the coordinator uses the prime factors method to find the least common multiple (LCM).

Based on the prime factors method demonstrated in the course, recall and state:

  1. The prime factorization of 12 written as a product of prime numbers.
  2. The prime factorization of 18 written as a product of prime numbers.
  3. The specific list of prime factors that are brought down from the vertically aligned columns to be multiplied together to compute the LCM.

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