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A quality assurance engineer at a manufacturing plant is standardizing structural measurements in a database. One measurement is initially recorded as 5+75{}5 + \sqrt{75} millimeters. After extracting the largest perfect square from the radical to obtain the simplified form 5+53{}5 + 5\sqrt{3}, the engineer leaves the expression as a sum. The integer 5{}5 and the radical term 53{}5\sqrt{3} cannot be combined into a single value because they are not ____.

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