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Documenting Simplification Procedures for Technical Tolerances

As an engineering technician, you are documenting a training guide on how to standardize fractional tolerance expressions like 10755\frac{10 - \sqrt{75}}{5}. According to the standard procedure for simplifying fractions whose numerators are binomials containing a square root, what is the very first step you must perform before attempting to factor the numerator and cancel common factors with the denominator?

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