Kevin and Conner tracked their exercise last week. Kevin ran 4 laps around the school track, eleven laps around his neighborhood, and 5 miles on the treadmill. Conner ran twenty laps around the school track and 6 miles on the treadmill. Write and simplify an expression for the total combined distance that Kevin and Conner ran. Show your work. Use t for the distance in laps around their school track and n for the distance in laps around Kevin’s neighborhood.

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Kevin ran (4 laps of length t) plus (11 laps of distance n) plus (5 miles). Conner ran (20 laps of distance n) plus (6 miles) on the treadmill. Can you write an equation for how far each of them ran?