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Documenting the Factoring Procedure for Corporate Expense Formulas
Your department uses the mathematical expression $12x - 60$ to represent certain variable costs in the annual budget. As part of a new employee training guide, you have been asked to write a brief explanation of how to factor this specific expression by extracting the Greatest Common Factor (GCF). Describe the step-by-step process used to identify the GCF and rewrite the expression in its factored form.
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