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An operations supervisor is synchronizing two production cycles: one that repeats every 24 minutes and another that repeats every 36 minutes. To find the first time both cycles will coincide, the supervisor writes each number as a product of primes and aligns them in columns to find the Least Common Multiple (LCM). Based on the specific example provided in the lesson, the LCM of 24 and 36 is ____.

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