Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "0.874" was replaced by "(874/1000)".

Step  1  :

            437
 Simplify   ———
            500

Equation at the end of step  1  :

          437
  7390 -  ———
          500

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

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

             7390     7390 • 500
     7390 =  ————  =  ——————————
              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 :

 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:

 7390 • 500 - (437)     3694563
 ——————————————————  =  ———————
        500               500  

Final result :

  3694563              
  ——————— = 7389.12600 
    500