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Procedural Standards for Rational Subtraction

In your role as a technical trainer for the company's 'Math Fundamentals' program, you are updating the handbook section on rational expressions. Using the expression y2y62y+24y6\frac{y^2}{y-6} - \frac{2y+24}{y-6} as an example, describe the specific procedural requirement for combining the numerators during subtraction and identify the 'common error' that our quality standards aim to prevent in this operation.

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