Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "5.042" was replaced by "(5042/1000)".

Step  1  :

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  5042    
  ———— +  23
  1000    

Step  2  :

            2521
 Simplify   ————
            500 

Equation at the end of step  2  :

  2521    
  ———— +  23
  500     

Step  3  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 3.1   Adding a whole to a fraction

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  500  as the denominator :

          23     23 • 500
    23 =  ——  =  ————————
          1        500   

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 :

 3.2       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:

 2521 + 23 • 500     6521
 ———————————————  =  ————
       500           500 

Final result :

  6521            
  ———— = 13.04200 
  500