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In a retail department's operational audit, a manager calculates a staff efficiency index represented by the complex fraction (12)24+32\frac{(\frac{1}{2})^2}{4+3^2}. To simplify this expression, the manager evaluates the numerator and the denominator separately following the order of operations. When starting to simplify the denominator, the manager must first evaluate the exponential term 32{}3^2, which yields the value ____.

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