Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "9.7" was replaced by "(97/10)".

Step  1  :

            97
 Simplify   ——
            10

Equation at the end of step  1  :

        97
  22 +  ——
        10

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Adding a fraction to a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  10  as the denominator :

           22     22 • 10
     22 =  ——  =  ———————
           1        10   

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:

 22 • 10 + 97     317
 ————————————  =  ———
      10          10 

Final result :

  317            
  ——— = 31.70000 
  10