What does it mean to find the least common denominator

If the public debt of a country in 2009 was $10432000000000 and the budget for 2010 was in deficit by $201645000000, what was the public debt in 2010? do not include commas in your answer.

Asays "we are both knaves" and b says nothing. exercises 24–31 relate to inhabitants of an island on which there are three kinds of people: knights who always tell the truth, knaves who always lie, and spies (called normals by smullyan [sm78]) who can either lie or tell the truth. you encounter three people, a, b, and c. you know one of these people is a knight, one is a knave, and one is a spy. each of the three people knows the type of person each of other two is. for each of these situations, if possible, determine whether there is a unique solution and determine who the knave, knight, and spy are. when there is no unique solution, list all possible solutions or state that there are no solutions. 24. a says "c is the knave," b says, "a is the knight," and c says "i am the spy."

Ateacher noticed 5/8 of the students were wearing either blue shorts or white shorts. write two different ways this could be done.