Solution - Reducing fractions to their lowest terms

Reformatting the input :

Changes made to your input should not affect the solution:

(1): "^-4" was replaced by "^(-4)".

Step  1  :

Equation at the end of step  1  :

  50 • ((5)(-4) -  3)

Step  2  :

Rewriting the whole as an Equivalent Fraction :

 2.1   Subtracting a whole from a fraction

Rewrite the whole as a fraction using  5⁴  as the denominator :

         3     3 • 54
    3 =  —  =  ——————
         1       54  

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:

 1 - (3 • 625)     -1874
 —————————————  =  —————
      625           625 

Equation at the end of step  2  :

       -1874
  50 • —————
        625 

Step  3  :

Final result :

  -3748              
  ————— = -149.92000 
   25