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Training Documentation: Simplifying Cost Formulas

You are a team lead at a financial services firm, and you are creating a training guide for new associates on how to simplify internal cost formulas. One example used in the guide is the expression $4x + 12$. Describe the standard four-step procedure for factoring this specific expression by extracting the Greatest Common Factor (GCF). Your response should include the identification of the GCF for these terms, the intermediate step of rewriting the terms as products, the final factored form, and the method used to verify the accuracy of the factoring.

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