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Documentation of the 'Writing it as Division' Simplification Procedure

You are working as a training specialist at a technical consulting firm. As part of an onboarding guide for junior analysts, you need to document how to simplify complex algebraic formulas used in efficiency models. One such model requires simplifying the complex rational expression:

1x+1yxyyx\frac{\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}}{\frac{x}{y}-\frac{y}{x}}

Write an essay (a structured, step-by-step procedural explanation) that lists and describes each of the four standard steps needed to simplify this expression using the 'Writing it as Division' method. For each step, clearly state the mathematical objective and the algebraic result of that step, showing how the expression progresses from its initial form to its final simplified form of 1xy\frac{1}{x-y}.

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