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Simplifying Labor Cost Formulas

An operations analyst is reviewing a labor cost formula represented by the expression 5a+55a + 5. In this formula, 5a5a represents the total base pay for five employees at an hourly rate of aa, and 55 represents a 11 dollar flat-rate bonus for each of those five employees. Using the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) method, what is the factored form of this expression?

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