Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "0.0085" was replaced by "(0085/10000)".

Step  1  :

             17 
 Simplify   ————
            2000

Equation at the end of step  1  :

        17 
  3 -  ————
       2000

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  2000  as the denominator :

          3     3 • 2000
     3 =  —  =  ————————
          1       2000  

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:

 3 • 2000 - (17)     5983
 ———————————————  =  ————
      2000           2000

Final result :

  5983           
  ———— = 2.99150 
  2000