Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "4.257" was replaced by "(4257/1000)".

Step  1  :

            4257
 Simplify   ————
            1000

Equation at the end of step  1  :

         4257
  700 -  ————
         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 :

            700     700 • 1000
     700 =  ———  =  ——————————
             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:

 700 • 1000 - (4257)     695743
 ———————————————————  =  ——————
        1000              1000 

Final result :

  695743             
  —————— = 695.74300 
   1000