Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "0.062" was replaced by "(062/1000)".

Step  1  :

             31
 Simplify   ———
            500

Equation at the end of step  1  :

        31
  2 -  ———
       500

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  500  as the denominator :

          2     2 • 500
     2 =  —  =  ———————
          1       500  

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:

 2 • 500 - (31)     969
 ——————————————  =  ———
      500           500

Final result :

  969           
  ——— = 1.93800 
  500