Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "263.5" was replaced by "(2635/10)".

Step  1  :

            527
 Simplify   ———
             2 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

          527
  1000 -  ———
           2 

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  2  as the denominator :

             1000     1000 • 2
     1000 =  ————  =  ————————
              1          2    

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:

 1000 • 2 - (527)     1473
 ————————————————  =  ————
        2              2  

Final result :

  1473             
  ———— = 736.50000 
   2