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 4(x) represent?

Answer 1

In the expression 4(x), 4 represents the number of legs, and x represents the height of the coffee table.

Altogether this expression shows the total length of all legs from the coffee table and kitchen table combined.