Channel 2 gives the weather every 10 minutes starting at 5: 10 a. m. channel 4 gives the weather every 12 minutes starting at 5: 10 a. m. a. when is the next time the two channels will give the weather at the same time? explain your reasoning.. b the expression 48 +40 gives the number of minutes that the two channels spend on weather reports in the early morning. use the distributive property to rewrite the sum as a multiple of a sum whose addends have no common factors.