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Procedural Steps for Simplifying Radical Formulas

A quality control technician is documenting the steps to simplify a precision tolerance formula: 62412\frac{6 - \sqrt{24}}{12}. After the technician correctly simplifies the radical to 24=26\sqrt{24} = 2\sqrt{6}, the expression becomes 62612\frac{6 - 2\sqrt{6}}{12}. According to the standard procedure for reducing such fractions, what is the name of the next algebraic operation that must be performed on the numerator before any factors can be canceled with the denominator?

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