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Procedural Steps for Persistent Radicals

A technician is working with a specialized formula for hydraulic pressure that contains two square root terms. After isolating one radical and squaring both sides for the first time, the technician observes that a variable still remains inside a square root. According to the standard algebraic procedure, what two specific steps must the technician perform next to eliminate this remaining radical?

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