document.write( "Question 824402: The PTA placed a trail marker in the ground every four hundred yards. Every nine hundred yards the PTA set up a water station. What is the shortest distance a runner will have to run to see both a water station and a trail marker at the same location? Please make this as simple as possible. Thank you :) \n" ); document.write( "
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There will be a trail marker at the following distances from the start of the trail.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The first time that there will be a trail marker and a water station at the same point will be 3600, that is the first multiple of 400 and 900.
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