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A quality assurance analyst is using a standard formula to determine material tolerances, which results in the fraction 4−482\frac{4 - \sqrt{48}}{2}. After simplifying the radical to 43{}4\sqrt{3}, the numerator becomes 4−43{}4 - 4\sqrt{3}. To properly simplify the fraction further, the greatest common factor that must be factored out of the entire numerator before canceling with the denominator is ____.

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