Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "2.6" was replaced by "(26/10)".

Step  1  :

            3
 Simplify   —
            1

Equation at the end of step  1  :

        26           
  (0 -  ——) -  (0 -  3)
        10           

Step  2  :

            13
 Simplify   ——
            5 

Equation at the end of step  2  :

        13     
  (0 -  ——) -  -3
        5      

Step  3  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 3.1   Subtracting a whole from a fraction

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  5  as the denominator :

          -3     -3 • 5
    -3 =  ——  =  ——————
          1        5   

Equivalent fraction : The fraction thus generated looks different but has the same value as the whole

Common denominator : The equivalent fraction and the other fraction involved in the calculation share the same denominator

Adding fractions that have a common denominator :

 3.2       Adding up the two equivalent fractions
Add the two equivalent fractions which now have a common denominator

Combine the numerators together, put the sum or difference over the common denominator then reduce to lowest terms if possible:

 -13 - (-3 • 5)     2
 ——————————————  =  —
       5            5

Final result :

  2           
  — = 0.40000 
  5