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A maintenance technician is learning a standard four-step procedure to calculate the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for matching equipment parts. In the first step, the technician is instructed to expand variable powers, such as writing x3x^3 as xβ‹…xβ‹…xx \cdot x \cdot x. According to the procedure, what is the specific purpose of this expansion?

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