Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "158.78" was replaced by "(15878/100)".

Step  1  :

            7939
 Simplify   ————
             50 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

            7939
  219648 -  ————
             50 

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  50  as the denominator :

               219648     219648 • 50
     219648 =  ——————  =  ———————————
                 1            50     

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:

 219648 • 50 - (7939)     10974461
 ————————————————————  =  ————————
          50                 50   

Final result :

  10974461                
  ———————— = 219489.22000 
     50