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Technical Documentation for Rational Expression LCD Extraction

You are a junior technical writer for a logistics firm tasked with creating a reference guide for standardizing variable cost formulas. One section of the guide explains the preliminary steps for adding the two mathematical expressions: 2a2ab+b2+3a4a2b2\frac{2a}{2ab + b^2} + \frac{3a}{4a^2 - b^2}. Write a brief technical summary for the guide that: 1) Identifies the two distinct polynomial factoring techniques required for the denominators. 2) States the fully factored form of each denominator. 3) Identifies the specific Least Common Denominator (LCD) that must be used to perform the addition.

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