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Standardizing Tolerance Measurements

A technical writer at a precision machining company is standardizing measurements in a specification manual. They encounter a component tolerance recorded as 5+75{}5 + \sqrt{75} millimeters. State the exact simplified radical form of this measurement, and recall the specific mathematical rule that explains why the integer and the radical part cannot be combined into a single term.

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