Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "0.857" was replaced by "(857/1000)".

Step  1  :

             857
 Simplify   ————
            1000

Equation at the end of step  1  :

   857    
  ———— +  50
  1000    

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Adding a whole to a fraction

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  1000  as the denominator :

          50     50 • 1000
    50 =  ——  =  —————————
          1        1000   

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 :

 2.2       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:

 857 + 50 • 1000     50857
 ———————————————  =  —————
      1000           1000 

Final result :

  50857            
  ————— = 50.85700 
  1000