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Onboarding Reference Guide: Simplifying Route Efficiency Ratios

You are working as an Associate Operations Analyst at a logistics firm. Your team uses a performance comparison ratio to optimize shipping route efficiencies between two distribution hubs. The performance ratio is modeled by the complex rational expression:

1x+1y1x1y\frac{\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}}{\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{y}}

where xx and yy represent the average transit speeds of the routes.

To assist onboarding team members, you need to document the exact procedure for simplifying this expression using the 'writing as division' method. Write a short guide that recalls and explains each of the three key steps in this algebraic process. For each step:

  1. Describe the mathematical action being taken.
  2. State the resulting simplified expression(s) obtained at that step.

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