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Efficiency Formula Simplification

A warehouse coordinator is using the formula 1x+1y1x1y\frac{\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}}{\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{y}} to compare the efficiency of two different sorting machines, xx and yy. To simplify this expression by writing it as division, the first step is to combine the terms in the numerator and the denominator into single fractions by finding a common denominator. State the common denominator that must be used to combine the terms in both the numerator and the denominator for this specific formula.

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