Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "42.57" was replaced by "(4257/100)".

Step  1  :

            4257
 Simplify   ————
            100 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  4257    
  ———— +  37
  100     

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Adding a whole to a fraction

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  100  as the denominator :

          37     37 • 100
    37 =  ——  =  ————————
          1        100   

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:

 4257 + 37 • 100     7957
 ———————————————  =  ————
       100           100 

Final result :

  7957            
  ———— = 79.57000 
  100