Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "68.96" was replaced by "(6896/100)".

Step  1  :

            1724
 Simplify   ————
             25 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

        1724
  74 -  ————
         25 

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  25  as the denominator :

           74     74 • 25
     74 =  ——  =  ———————
           1        25   

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:

 74 • 25 - (1724)     126
 ————————————————  =  ———
        25            25 

Final result :

  126           
  ——— = 5.04000 
  25