Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "48.269" was replaced by "(48269/1000)".

Step  1  :

            48269
 Simplify   —————
            1000 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  48269    
  ————— -  8
  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 :

         8     8 • 1000
    8 =  —  =  ————————
         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:

 48269 - (8 • 1000)     40269
 ——————————————————  =  —————
        1000            1000 

Final result :

  40269            
  ————— = 40.26900 
  1000