Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "23.375" was replaced by "(23375/1000)".

Step  1  :

            187
 Simplify   ———
             8 

Equation at the end of step  1  :

          187
  8537 -  ———
           8 

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a fraction from a whole

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  8  as the denominator :

             8537     8537 • 8
     8537 =  ————  =  ————————
              1          8    

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:

 8537 • 8 - (187)     68109
 ————————————————  =  —————
        8               8  

Final result :

  68109              
  ————— = 8513.62500 
    8