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Use the distributive property to create an equivalent expression to 40+4x

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find the greatest common factor, GCF, which is 4.

4(40/4 + 4x/4) factor out the GCF

4(10 + x) simplify and this is your answer.

hope this helps, God bless!
User Caseygrun
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I think 2(2x+20) would work.
there are other ones like: 4(x+10)
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