Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "37.287" was replaced by "(37287/1000)".

Step  1  :

            37287
 Simplify   —————
            1000 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  37287    
  ————— -  15
  1000     

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a whole from a fraction

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  1000  as the denominator :

          15     15 • 1000
    15 =  ——  =  —————————
          1        1000   

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:

 37287 - (15 • 1000)     22287
 ———————————————————  =  —————
        1000             1000 

Final result :

  22287            
  ————— = 22.28700 
  1000