The students of a school went on a picnic by bus. The number of students in each of x buses was the same. The number of rows of seats in each bus was 4 more than the number of buses. The number of students who sat on each row of seats was 2 more than the number of rows of seats in each bus. The expression below shows the total number of students in all the buses:

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anonymous · Answer

x(x + 4)(x + 6)

How can the total number of rows of seats in all the buses combined be calculated? 

 By multiplying x and (x + 6)

 By multiplying x and (x + 4)

 By adding (x + 4) and (x + 6)

 By adding (x + 4) and (x + 2)

anonymous · Answer

What do you not understand? I can help.

anonymous · Answer

Took me a while, but I finally got it. Thanks for responding though!

anonymous · Answer

Sorry I didn't reply earlier!