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Standard Operating Procedure for Stress Formulas

As a quality assurance technician, you are writing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to help new hires simplify material stress formulas that involve higher-order roots of complex fractions, such as 32a9b7162a3b34\sqrt[4]{\frac{32a^9b^7}{162a^3b^3}}. According to procedural best practices, what is the crucial first mathematical step they must perform on the expression before applying the Quotient Property of Roots to separate the numerator and denominator?

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