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Maintenance Schedule Coordination

A facility supervisor is using the prime factor method to determine when two recurring maintenance cycles—one every 12 days and one every 18 days—will next coincide. Given the prime factorizations are 12=22312 = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 and 18=23318 = 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3, what is the specific product of prime factors that must be multiplied to find the Least Common Multiple (LCM)?

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