the equation could model a scenario determining the number of players on each team in a league of five teams, if 2 players have to be taken out of the possible players to be referees and to keep score. there will be 11 on each team
Start by finding the LCM of the coefficients of each polynomial:
Next, to find the least common multiple of each of the following terms, we need to take the absolute minimum we can of each term (, , and ). The largest term of is in the first polynomial, so we'll take exactly that for our term in the LCM, absolutely nothing more. Similarly, the largest term of in any of the three polynomials is (also in the first polynomial) and the largest term in any of the three polynomials is in the second polynomial. Thus, the LCM of all our polynomials is: