Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "2.983" was replaced by "(2983/1000)".

Step  1  :

            2983
 Simplify   ————
            1000

Equation at the end of step  1  :

       2983
  4 -  ————
       1000

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

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

          4     4 • 1000
     4 =  —  =  ————————
          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:

 4 • 1000 - (2983)     1017
 —————————————————  =  ————
       1000            1000

Final result :

  1017           
  ———— = 1.01700 
  1000