Question

Diego is building a kitchen table and a coffee table. The legs of a kitchen table must be twice the height of a coffee table and there are 4 legs on each table. He writes the expression 4(2x) + 4(x) to model his building plans. What does the coefficient of 4 represent?
A. 4 represents the height of one kitchen table leg.
B. 4 represents the number of legs on each table.
C. 4 represents the height of one coffee table leg.
D. 4 represents the total number of table legs.

Answer 1

Given : The legs of a kitchen table must be twice the height of a coffee table and there are 4 legs on each table Diego is building.The expression  he wrote  to model his building plans is 4(2x) + 4(x).

The question is asking us to write what the 4 in the expression represent.

The 4 is representing the number of legs of each table .

Among all the given options :B. 4 represents the number of legs on each table  is the right answer.

Answer 2

The answer is B as the coefficient represents the number of legs