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A laboratory technician is preparing a mixture that requires combining rac{7}{12} liters of one solution and rac{5}{18} liters of another. To find the least common denominator using the standard addition method, the technician first determines the prime factorization of each denominator. What is the correct prime factorization of the denominator 18?
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