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Standard Operating Procedure for Rational Division

A process engineer is documenting the mathematical steps needed to simplify efficiency ratios for a new training manual. Using the expression below as an example, list the four sequential steps that must be followed to divide and simplify these rational expressions into their final reduced form:

3n2n24n÷9n245nn27n+10\frac{3n^2}{n^2-4n} \div \frac{9n^2-45n}{n^2-7n+10}

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