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Justifying Steps in Technical Calculations

An engineering technician is documenting the simplification of the expression 18p5q732pq2\sqrt{\frac{18p^5q^7}{32pq^2}} for a structural design report. After reducing the fraction inside the radical to 9p4q516\frac{9p^4q^5}{16}, the technician's next step is to rewrite the expression as 9p4q516\frac{\sqrt{9p^4q^5}}{\sqrt{16}}. What is the name of the specific algebraic property that justifies splitting a single radical of a quotient into a quotient of two separate radicals?

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