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

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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 4(2x) represent?
A. 4(2x) represents the height of one kitchen table leg.
B. 4(2x) represents the total length of all four kitchen table legs.
C. 4(2x) represents the height of one coffee table leg.
D. 4(2x) represents the total length of all four coffee table legs.

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GuDViN [60] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-24T18:30:36+03:00

GuDViN [60]3 years ago

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B. They are twice as long and there are 4 of them

Ber [7] · Answer 2 · 2022-01-24T20:31:21+03:00

Given: The legs of Diego kitchen table must be twice the height of a coffee table and there are 4 legs on each table. Let x represent the height of a coffee table .

The given expression is 4(2x) + 4(x) .There are four legs in Kitchen table. Length of each leg of Kitchen table is 2x. Length of all the 4 legs of the kitchen table =4(2x).

Among all the options ,Option B. 4(2x) represents the total length of all four kitchen table legs is the right option.