Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "3.98" was replaced by "(398/100)".

Step  1  :

            199
 Simplify   ———
            50 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

       199
  6 -  ———
       50 

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  50  as the denominator :

          6     6 • 50
     6 =  —  =  ——————
          1       50  

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:

 6 • 50 - (199)     101
 ——————————————  =  ———
       50           50 

Final result :

  101           
  ——— = 2.02000 
  50