Fraction calculator
This fraction calculator performs basic and advanced fraction operations, expressions with fractions combined with integers, decimals, and mixed numbers. It also shows detailed step-by-step information about the fraction calculation procedure. The calculator helps in finding value from multiple fractions operations. Solve problems with two, three, or more fractions and numbers in one expression.
The result:
11 3/7 - 8 6/8 = 75/28 = 2 19/28 ≅ 2.6785714
Spelled result in words is seventy-five twenty-eighths (or two and nineteen twenty-eighths).How do we solve fractions step by step?
- Conversion a mixed number 11 3/7 to a improper fraction: 11 3/7 = 11 3/7 = 11 · 7 + 3/7 = 77 + 3/7 = 80/7
To find a new numerator:
a) Multiply the whole number 11 by the denominator 7. Whole number 11 equally 11 * 7/7 = 77/7
b) Add the answer from the previous step 77 to the numerator 3. New numerator is 77 + 3 = 80
c) Write a previous answer (new numerator 80) over the denominator 7.
Eleven and three sevenths is eighty sevenths. - Conversion a mixed number 8 6/8 to a improper fraction: 8 6/8 = 8 6/8 = 8 · 8 + 6/8 = 64 + 6/8 = 70/8
To find a new numerator:
a) Multiply the whole number 8 by the denominator 8. Whole number 8 equally 8 * 8/8 = 64/8
b) Add the answer from the previous step 64 to the numerator 6. New numerator is 64 + 6 = 70
c) Write a previous answer (new numerator 70) over the denominator 8.
Eight and six eighths is seventy eighths. - Subtract: 80/7 - 70/8 = 80 · 8/7 · 8 - 70 · 7/8 · 7 = 640/56 - 490/56 = 640 - 490/56 = 150/56 = 2 · 75/2 · 28 = 75/28
It is suitable to adjust both fractions to a common (equal, identical) denominator for adding, subtracting, and comparing fractions. The common denominator you can calculate as the least common multiple of both denominators - LCM(7, 8) = 56. It is enough to find the common denominator (not necessarily the lowest) by multiplying the denominators: 7 × 8 = 56. In the following intermediate step, cancel by a common factor of 2 gives 75/28.
In other words - eighty sevenths minus seventy eighths is seventy-five twenty-eighths.
Rules for expressions with fractions:
Fractions - use a forward slash to divide the numerator by the denominator, i.e., for five-hundredths, enter 5/100. If you use mixed numbers, leave a space between the whole and fraction parts.Mixed numerals (mixed numbers or fractions) keep one space between the integer and
fraction and use a forward slash to input fractions i.e., 1 2/3 . An example of a negative mixed fraction: -5 1/2.
Because slash is both sign for fraction line and division, use a colon (:) as the operator of division fractions i.e., 1/2 : 1/3.
Decimals (decimal numbers) enter with a decimal point . and they are automatically converted to fractions - i.e. 1.45.
Math Symbols
Symbol | Symbol name | Symbol Meaning | Example |
---|---|---|---|
+ | plus sign | addition | 1/2 + 1/3 |
- | minus sign | subtraction | 1 1/2 - 2/3 |
* | asterisk | multiplication | 2/3 * 3/4 |
× | times sign | multiplication | 2/3 × 5/6 |
: | division sign | division | 1/2 : 3 |
/ | division slash | division | 1/3 / 5 |
: | colon | complex fraction | 1/2 : 1/3 |
^ | caret | exponentiation / power | 1/4^3 |
() | parentheses | calculate expression inside first | -3/5 - (-1/4) |
Examples:
• adding fractions: 2/4 + 3/4• subtracting fractions: 2/3 - 1/2
• multiplying fractions: 7/8 * 3/9
• dividing Fractions: 1/2 : 3/4
• reciprocal of a fraction: 1 : 3/4
• square of a fraction: 2/3^2
• cube of a fraction: 2/3^3
• exponentiation of a fraction: 1/2^4
• fractional exponents: 16 ^ 1/2
• adding fractions and mixed numbers: 8/5 + 6 2/7
• dividing integer and fraction: 5 ÷ 1/2
• complex fractions: 5/8 : 2 2/3
• decimal to fraction: 0.625
• Fraction to Decimal: 1/4
• Fraction to Percent: 1/8 %
• comparing fractions: 1/4 2/3
• multiplying a fraction by a whole number: 6 * 3/4
• square root of a fraction: sqrt(1/16)
• reducing or simplifying the fraction (simplification) - dividing the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same non-zero number - equivalent fraction: 4/22
• expression with brackets: 1/3 * (1/2 - 3 3/8)
• compound fraction: 3/4 of 5/7
• fractions multiple: 2/3 of 3/5
• divide to find the quotient: 3/5 ÷ 2/3
The calculator follows well-known rules for the order of operations. The most common mnemonics for remembering this order of operations are:
PEMDAS - Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
BEDMAS - Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction
BODMAS - Brackets, Of or Order, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
GEMDAS - Grouping Symbols - brackets (){}, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
MDAS - Multiplication and Division have the same precedence over Addition and Subtraction. The MDAS rule is the order of operations part of the PEMDAS rule.
Be careful; always do multiplication and division before addition and subtraction. Some operators (+ and -) and (* and /) have the same priority and must evaluate from left to right.
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