Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "7.2" was replaced by "(72/10)".

Step  1  :

            36
 Simplify   ——
            5 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

         36
  216 -  ——
         5 

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

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

            216     216 • 5
     216 =  ———  =  ———————
             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 :

 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:

 216 • 5 - (36)     1044
 ——————————————  =  ————
       5             5  

Final result :

  1044             
  ———— = 208.80000 
   5